InDesign 2025 Crashing When Using Find/Change with Overset Text

Henry Brewer

Participating Frequently

Downgrade to version 19.5.1. You will still be able to open newer versions of documents, and newer versions of Indesign do not bring any major improvements. They are just even less stable and have a lot of popups.

theryzor

Inspiring

Will do! I wish Adobe would spend less time with feature creep and more time making the app faster and more stable. It’s getting to the point where opening and using InDesign is almost pure friction.

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Elaine Wilson 2

Participating Frequently

I'm still having this problem as well. The reply stating it was fixed in November is not true.

InDesign 20.0, MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2, scads of disk space, 128GB RAM, and so on

leo.r

Community Expert

InDesign 20.0
By @Elaine Wilson 2

will the problem persist if you update InDesign to its current version 20.2?

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Sascha_Bucher6985

Participant

It's been a few months, but for the last 3 days I've had a lot of crashes in InDesing, especially when searching & replacing. Without having done an update 3 days ago. This is understandable even on a page with a text box and a word in it that you are searching for. I sincerely hope that it is clear that the problem still exists. InDesign version: 20.2; Mac OS: 15.3.1; Mac M3 Max.

Henry Brewer

Participating Frequently

If you want to work in peace and avoid dealing with problems, I recommend immediately downgrading to version 19.5.1, which is the last relatively stable version, and never upgrading to a higher version again.

Participating Frequently

READ THIS FIX:

InDesign 20.01 is the fix for this issue. but this is a beta version so you have to install this version differntly. This is why people are not getting this 20.01 version that specifically fixed searching overtext.

Adding confusion to this, InDesign isn't showing people a version number past 20.0 on old versions. This makes it much more difficult to realize you don't have version 20.01.

Fix instructions:

1. Open Creative cloud and Click the apps Icon on the left: (see picture)

2. Select Beta (see picture)

3. You will now see the option to download InDesign 20.01. (see picture)

FIXED

Participating Frequently

When beta is installed, it reads InDesign Beta 2025 version 20.1.0.3. (This version crashes searching overtext still, this version should be fixed before release)

Now I can press update inside the InDesign 2025 beta app, and InDesign 20.0.1 is now finally availible to install. (This ended up being version 20.0.1.32 once installed)

Once installed, InDesign 20.0.1.32 no longer crashes searching overtext. The find command no longer finds any overtext. It just states (overtext) and does not find anything.

So they fixed the crashing by removing the ability to search overtext....yikes. And InDesign 20.0.1 was only availlble inside the beta app.

I am still trying to get this person to update Sonoma 14.5 all the way and see if this issue persists.

Participating Frequently

The final update: User has the latest MAC OS 14.7.2 and InDesign 20.0.1.32.

InDesign 2025 has lost the ability to find overtext, it doesn't crash, but the find doesn't even go to the page where the overtext exists. The find just states "overtext"

Participating Frequently

Make a blank document and made a single text box.

Paste in more text then it can hold.

Use the "Find" to search for a word that could not fit in this text box (overtext).

InDesign Crashs every time on MacOS 14.5 . (This is fully updated)

Fix this already

leo.r

Community Expert

InDesign Crashs every time on MacOS 14.5 . (This is fully updated)

By @IT_Brian

Can't reproduce it. What's your exact InDesign version?

(Also, update Sonoma to its latest version, even though it's unlikely to make a difference in this case.)

Participating Frequently

I fully updated InDesign. It would only tell me version 20.0 so I cannot confirm its 20.01. But I tred updating it in several areas and it told me it was updated.

Henry Brewer

Participating Frequently

Have to thank Adobe again, after constant crashing I had to downgrade Indesign. "Well done", Adobe. Perhaps there is no need to provide versions that are completely useless.

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Suzanne241161579hma

Participant

I recently updated Indesign to the (20.0) Version. Every time I try to Find and Change it pops up saying an error has occured, which I then have the option to send a report or not. I'm currently working in the previous Version (19.5) to finish my job. Anyone else have this problem?

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AudraNY

Participant

Yes, I have the same problem. I crash with the latest update of 2025 Indesign/Incopy v. 20, when trying to press command+F, or any other commands for that matter. InCopy won't even stay open on some of my files for more than two seconds. I have a MacBook Pro with M3 chip, and I'm on Sonoma 14.7 OS.

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CreativeFern

Participant

Hi there,

Long-term InDesign user.

Using the latest version of MacOS and Indesign on MacBook Pro M2. Having exactly the same issue as everybody else is describing here.