How to change photo shape settings

[Jacqueline22812877bht9]

Hello,

I am trying to make a project on InDesign, but when I attempt to put pictures on that are in the shape of a square, it automatically reshapes them into polygons. It does not do this when the photos are in the shape of a rectangle. I think when I was trying to put polygon shapes on my document earlier I managed to accidentally change the settings and I am unsure how to change them back. I have made a new document and copies of the photos and I still have this issue, meaning that it is a problem with my InDesign settings. Any help would be appreciated, as I am quite lost on how to fix it and I am having trouble finding information online.

Thanks.

[Randy Hagan]

The good news is that the tool setting is an application-specific setting, so when you set them once they'll stick from here on out.

• Open a document. Get your Black Arrow/Selection tool and tap on a blank spot on the clipboard to make sure absolutely nothing is selected.
• Go to your Toolbar and check out the shapes of the Shape tool and the Frame tool, as shown in the illustration to right. In the example, both tools are set as polygon shapes. I'd just about bet at least one of these tools in your toolbar are too.
• Go to the downward-pointing triangle to the bottom right of the tool button tile and hold down the left mouse button. This opens a flyaway menu which lets you select options of Polygon, Ellipse and Rectangular shapes.
• Change the Polygon option with the hexagon shape to a Rectangular shape and your polygon issue should be no more.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Jacqueline22812877bht9]

Hi Randy! Thank you for the quick response.

Unfortunately I have clicked the rectangle option, making sure that I was selecting nothing else, and I am still having this issue. Would you be to recommened any other options I could try?

Thank you and sorry for the trouble.

[Randy Hagan]

Alan's answer below is a valid next step; it brings you back to your original installed baseline and should eliminate your issue.

And it's no trouble at all. I'm glad that I can help.

Randy

[Jacqueline22812877bht9]

Thank you for the help, I appreciate it!

[AlanGilbertson]

The next thing to try is to reset your InDesign preferences. Close InDesign, then click on its icon to reopen but immediately hold down Control, Alt, and Shift (Windows) or Command, Option, and Shift (Mac). You will get a message box asking if you want to remove your preferences. Click "OK" and InDesign will open in its default configuration.

That should handle the problem. You can now import your preferences from the last version of InDesign that you had installed, or simply set them up again.

[Jacqueline22812877bht9]

Hi! Thank you for the advice, this seems like a great fix.

The issue is I'm not sure I'm doing it right? Whenever I am opening InDesign I've hit the keys and the message box hasn't popped up, nor has it when I've tried hitting the keys when InDesign has opened. Would you know if there is any other way to reset or what I should be doing differently?

Thank you and sorry for the trouble.

[AlanGilbertson]

I'm guessing you're on a Mac, and as I haven't used one in years I missed a key. On Mac, hold down all four of Shift, Command, Option and Control. That'll do it.

[Willi Adelberger]

Could it be, that you have changed the corne option? Try to reset the used Object Style.