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May 15, 2024
Question

InDesign Review Panel Automatically Filters to 'Resolved' Comments When Editing Text

  • May 15, 2024
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I am often working on documents with multiple review sessions. The problem that occurs since the latest updates of InDesign is that as soon as I put the cursor in a piece of text which previously had a comment attached to it which is resolved, all resolved comments pop up in the comments panel and I cannot see the current comments: all comments are immediately filtered to 'resolved'. Of course I can switch off the filter for resolved comments again, but it switches back again to 'resolved comments' as soon as I start working on the text. This is driving me nuts, because it is not only annoying, it becomes very difficult to work on the unresolved comments and takes up a lot of time. As a work around I now have to open the online document with the current unresolved comments to track down what actually still needs to be resolved. Please help!

Update 2025-05-13
This is still unresolved, so to anyone upvoting my comments on this issue: thank you!
To you, and anyone new reading these posts looking for a solution: please vote for the 'feature request' I added on the InDesign UserVoice panel: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/49001534-indesign-review-panel-should-not-switch-the-filter

 

Hopefully, that helps getting this on the list for updates as AI features seem to have the only priority now for Adobe. 😕😕

 

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    Venn Creative
    New Participant
    June 26, 2025

    Note that this was flagged in 2020, it has been reported as something that was under review. 5 years later, it's still borderline unusable because of this https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/41974318--id-4260994-the-filter-in-the-review-panel-is-auto

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    Eugene Tyson
    Adobe Expert
    May 19, 2024

    What version of InDesign?
    What OS and version please?

     

    Have you tried any standard fixes

     

    If a document is not behaving well then try 

    File>Export 

    Choose IDML

    Open the IDML in InDesign
    Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name
    See if the issue persists.

     

     

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    Try resetting your preferences:

    Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
    macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
    A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog.
    Further info and instructions here if needed:
    https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html

     

     

    NOcreationsBE
    NOcreationsBEAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 19, 2024

    @Eugene TysonI use InDesign version 19.4 on Windows 11 version 23H2.

    I don't know what you mean with 'standard fixes'.

     

    Saving the document with a new name will delete the connection with the (old) review comments so that is the opposite of what I want. FYI: I have this issue with all documents that contain multiple review sessions with different comments attached to the same item or text.

     

    Pressing Shift+Ctrl+Alt does not do anything...

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    Eugene Tyson
    Adobe Expert
    May 19, 2024

    There's a comprehensive list here
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/reset-indesign-preferences-and-other-troubleshooting/td-p/11990234

     

    You'd be looking at Reset Preferences - and Caches 

     

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