In Design spacebar closes app instead of creating space

[Stranmillis]

In Design spacebar closes app instead of creating a space.  This only in InDesign as it works OK elsewhere

[Peter Spier]

First thing to check is the keyboard shortcut set, just to be sure there's nothing wonky there. Next thing to try is resetting the preferences: Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting 

[Stranmillis]

Thanks Peter – will try

J

[Stranmillis]

Have tried several approaches and have now reinstalled InDesign and it still will not create space. Everything else OK and works in other programs. I imported file with chinese as well as latin characters. Could this be the problem? It had been set in SinSum but have changed font. 

[Peter Spier]

Did you run the cleaner tool before reinstalling? Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool to solve installation problems 

[harmonys12516152]

This has just started ahppening to me... Soooo annoying! Anyone else been able to fix it?

[Peter Spier]

I'm seeing some other posts about strange spacebar behaviors on Mac that seem to be realted to running Chrome...

[Stranmillis · Accepted solution]

I eventually spent four hours with Adobe online and after reinstalling InDesign, two computer restarts and them using Cleaner it was a check of Keyboard settings under Accessibilty found that 'Enable Full Keyboard access was ticked. When unticked it resolved it. A long day but they were very helpful. I hope this bit of info may add to the knowledge.

Thank you for your help

[Peter Spier]

Thanks for posting this.

What is your OS?

[Stranmillis]

Monterey 12.0.1

[harmonys12516152]

OMG you absolute LEGEND!!! This fixed it!!!!

Finally after days of puling my hair out. Thank you thank you thank you!! Best Christmas present ever!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I wonder if this counts as an Adobe bug or an Apple bug...

[erik spiekermann]

but why wouldn’t anybody want full keyboard access? I had the same issue and spent best part of a day not fixing it. Only concerns Indesign, so this is a bug. I do need full keyboard access as I work in several languages.

Thanks for the answer!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

FKB is a way to navigate the computer with less reliance on a mouse or trackpad. 

[Rusty23606570t1t2]

Thats it! Thanks so much for posting this. I am running OS Monterey 12.3. I had updated this weeks earlier and suddenly today that started happening. unclicking the enable full keyboard access did the trick! Much appreciated!!!!

[Ellen Jaskol]

That accessibility setting was the answer!!!!   Thank you thank you!!!!

[innovative_adventurer5D56]

For troubleshooting

First, you should reset preferences, if it didnt work, uninstal and reinstall indesign.

[Peter Spier]

All of which was covered in the previous responses...

[stunamii]

[arrrrgggghhhh]

But I need Keyboard Accessibility to use Keyboard Maestro and my Logitech MX 3 Mouse. Arrrrggghhhhhh

[arrrrgggghhhh]

Ahhh. Solve it with a little poking around. While in Accessibility > Full Keyboard Access leave it turned ON. Click on the "circle i" icon, click the "Commands" tab, delete "Space" to the right of "Activate".

YAY

[kathleenp29010879]

Thank you!  I had this problem as well....seems like a weird bug.