ISO Method for Permanently Disabling "Share for Review"

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September 30, 2021
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I do not use this feature.

I will never use this feature.

And yet, every time I open a file or access the menu, the "Share for Review" pane pops up (with nothing in it), forcing me to click the left-facing arrow and then elsewhere on the app.

I want to remove this feature, or at the very least, hide it, so that I don't have to do this workaround every. single. time. I open a file.

This "feature" is making the software nearly unusable at this point.

Anyone have a suggestion?

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Conrad_C

Community Expert

Which workspace is currently active?

I never see see the Review panel come up on its own. But when the Review workspace is selected, the Review panel appears in front, if you have not customized that workspace. If this is what’s causing it to always come up for you, switch to any other workspace to change which panels are open. Choose the workspace that opens the panels you use most often.

And if the Review panel is still in front in another workspace, try resetting the workspace to its default settings; choose Window > Workspace > Reset [name of current workspace]. Or simply close the Review panel (not just collapse, but fully close), because a workspace should remember which panels are open and closed.

Because this issue did not get fixed by resetting preferences, it is possible that InDesign might handle (and reset) workspace settings separately from general application preferences, but I haven’t tested it that far.

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jasonk88405886Author

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Thanks for the detailed reply (and even a gif!). Well done.

Unfortunately, this is not related to the workspace, as I use a custom workspace built off the default one (at least that's my current theory). And it's the review panel itself, but the drop-down "attached" to the "Share for review" button to the left of the workspace name that looks like a rectangle with an arrow pointing up.

The next time it happens, I'll take a screenshot and post it here.

John Mensinger

Community Expert

I cannot find any "GPU Performance" preference anywhere in the Preferences menus. I'm using the latest version of InDesign from Creative Cloud, if that matters.

You can stop looking. It (GPU Performance toggle) is not applicable running under Windows.

It's a wierd problem. Next place I'd start looking is input device or display adapter conflicts, and background utilities that may be capable of stealing focus. Is there a web browswer also running when this happens? If you do a clean boot and start nothing but InDesign, does it still happen?

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

That sounds quite unpleasant, and I have never seen my install of InDesign do that. I wonder if you shouldn't start by trying to reset your preferences, so hopefully whatever feature is showing this to you gets shut off. I remember that I was forced to click through that menu the first time I ran InDesign after the upgrade to the first version that had Share for Review, and it sounds like you have to do it every time you open a file, which is not how it's supposed to work.