InDesign 17 Eyedropper tool not copying text styling

im also having the same issue. When is a fix planned for this?

Like others have said, the issue is intermittent. It used to work beautifully but has since become a daily struggle. In a 44-page document, I do the norm: highlight text (A), select Eyedropper, click styled text (B)—text (A) disappears. On another page in the exact same document, I use the same method and it works just fine. Move to another section in the same document, nada. The textbox could be all alone on the page so I'm not sampling anything else by mistake.

Like njkyippee sometimes I need to bypass set styles and quickly apply as I design. I'm forced to manually enter the desired text styling which just doesn't make sense with a program this powerful. I've uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign and I keep checking this forum to see if anyone has figured out a solution. The eyedropper settings has paragraph and charcter styles checked. I tried resetting through Preferences but don't see anything related to the eyedropper.

This impacts my professional work as I spend way too much time troubleshooting and doing workarounds (retyping a headline is exasperating). And how can I teach when it doesn't even work for me?! These days my demo to college students starts with, "Well, mine is buggy but it's supposed to do this…hopefully it works for you."

ADOBE, ARE YOU LISTENING?

It seems to work if you switch off any layers underneath

I am having the same issue and its equally infuriating to me. What I found was that the issue was happening primarily when I attempted to sample from a text box that was grouped with another item. Once I ungrouped the pickup text box it worked correctly on the destination text. This is annoying because many of my layouts have grouped items and to manually ungroup everything and then eyedrop pretty much defeats the purpose of using the eyedropper as a fast/efficient way to style text... but there you have it. Adobe community, please don't start about how I should use paragraph styles—I already do that but there are slight modifcations over hundreds of pages and sometimes I just need to pick up the style I want FAST.

I'm having same problem on Monterey12.6.3 - latest version of Indesign. Cannot copy text styles anymore with the eyedropper tool. Have selected all preferences, b

ut when I try to eyedrop text styles, it just outlines my text. @adobe has there been any updates to this glitch?

I normally use paragraph, character, and object styles--however, I just tested the tool and it works as expected. 

Hi @Trevor5E5B:

I'm not experiencing this issue as I understand it. Note that this video was taken on Big Sur (11.6) and InDesign 17. I won't upgrade the OS for a few weeks at least, and I will continue my layout work on 16.4 to give Adobe and Apple time to work out the bugs. I don't recommend updating everything the day the upgrades are released. 

~Barb

Hmmm...it's working here.

When I read your description of your attempt, it seems backward to me. I never use the eyedropper for styling text, but here's how it worked when I tested it just now:

Option #1:

1. Select the target text
2. Choose the Eyedropper
3. Click the source text
4. Source formatting applied to target

Option #2:

1. Choose the Eyedropper
2. Click the source text
3. Drag-select across the target text
4. Source formatting applied to target

If you double-click the Eyedropper, the Character Settings and Paragraph Settings options are checked, right?