InDesign 2025 Crashing When Using Find/Change with Overset Text

[katieh64658769]

Since updating to 2025, we've run into an issue when using the Find/Change window—if we're searching for something that happens to be in overset text, clicking "find" crashes the program. Has anyone else run into this or found a solution? (The file size doesn't matter; it happens on long books and short books alike.)

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[Robert at ID-Tasker]

How exactly would you like to help me? I'm very curious.

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

By comparing your situation / configuration to what helped others in the past. 

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

It helped me to downgrade InDesign. What does this mean? That there is a bug in the new version, which is confirmed by the fact that this discussion appeared here. As for the past, the only application that has crashed regularly in my 30 years of using Adobe products is Indesign. Now, if I tell you the exact version of Indesign that has the bug, will you help me, as a community expert?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Right now, the best solution is to downgrade to 2024. 

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

Yes, I understood that as soon as I was unable to work. But I still wonder why you needed to know the Indesign version, when even someone from Adobe here writes that they know about this bug and will fix it.

[leo.r]

But I still wonder why you needed to know the Indesign version, when even someone from Adobe here writes that they know about this bug and will fix it.

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

Once again, this particular issue should be fixed in InDesign 20.0.1. What exact version of InDesign do you experience the problem with?

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

Sorry, too many experts here. It was your fellow expert who wanted to know the version of Indesign.

[leo.r]

It helped me to downgrade InDesign. What does this mean? That there is a bug in the new version, which is confirmed by the fact that this discussion appeared here. Now, if I tell you the exact version of Indesign that has the bug, will you help me, as a community expert?

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

So, once again, what exact version of InDesign are you using? This bug should be fixed in 20.0.1.

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

If you'd read what I wrote, you'd know that. I'll just add that I won't take any chances and wait until the new version is properly debugged. I also told you nine days ago that version 20.0.1 didn't help.

[leo.r]

If you'd read what I wrote, you'd know that. I'll just add that I'm not taking any chances and will wait until the new version is properly debugged.

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

Once again, this particular issue should be fixed in InDesign 20.0.1. You never stated what exact version of InDesign you're having the problem with. If you do experience this issue in InDesign 20.0.1, please report here, and this problem should be looked into again. 

[leo.r]

P.S.

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/48996323--id-4256174-in...

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

Too bad you don't read what anyone writes to you, because you would know that I answered this question a few days ago. Version 20.0.1 didn't help.

[leo.r]

Too bad you don't read what anyone writes to you, because you would know that I answered this question a few days ago. Version 20.0.1 didn't help.

By @Jindřich3403716436xp

If you do experience this particular bug in InDesign 20.0.1, then you may want to report it again here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

At this point, this bug is considered fixed (see the uservoice link I posted above).

[IT_Brian]

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

[IT_Brian]

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.

[IT_Brian]

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"

[Jindřich3403716436xp]

You must be joking... This is unbelievable. "Well done" again, Adobe.