Prevent Indesign opening full screen

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January 29, 2025
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Is there any way of preventing InDesign from opening full screen in Windows 11?

How to

JR Boulay

Community Expert

You're in luck.
I'd like it to be the other way around, but every time InDesign opens in windowed mode, I have to set it to full screen after each launch.

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James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

ID opens in the same configuration it had when you closed it... except (for me) about one time in a dozen it will either make the main window full screen or minimize it to the three corner-button blocks.

But if you set it all up the way you want and save a custom workspace, that's how it should open nearly all times.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

For me, sometimes, it opens slightly less than full screen - I always work full screen.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Try it on an ultrawide. 🙂

I have the main ID window in the center, my full range of working palettes to the left and a browser in the right-hand quarter or so. A working window any wider is hard to "track" without wearing your neck out.

Why ID just occasionally takes the main window full-width (under all the palettes etc.) or minimizes to a tiny rectangle is not something I've figured out the why or prevention of. I just sigh and use the screen manager to reset it.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

It should open the same size at it has been closed?

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FredC17Author

Participant

Usually it opens the same way it was if I have just put the PC in Sleep mode. If, as it was last night, a Windows upgrade was installed and the PC rebooted, then InDesign opens full screen. There is no way to resize the full screen window easily -- I'm unable to grasp the edges, particularly at the bottom of the screen, with my cursor. I hesitate to restart the PC, even once a week, since keeping it in Sleep mode keeps the window the right size in Windows 11.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Has something changed between Window 10 and 11? You should be able to right click the program icon and choose properties, the set how it opens: Minimized, Normal Window (which ought to retain the last size you dragged for it), or Maximized.

If it's really Maximized to full screen, rather than your having dragged a Normal Windo to full screen size (a bad thing, in my opinion, becasue it makes it near impossible to resize), you need to click the Normal Window button to reduce it.

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