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skald89
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May 19, 2020
Question

Resizing text boxes is always proportional on InDesign 15.0.3

  • May 19, 2020
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After an update InDesign won't let me change the size of a text box normally anymore. If I try to grab the middle bottom anchor to extend down a text box or image the width also changes at the same time. This would only happen if I held down shift while sizing. Now its a default. Holding down shift does not help to extend the length only. How can I fix this?

 

InDesign 15.0.3

 

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    lawrencec5049735
    Participant
    July 29, 2020

    Update: A computer restart seems to have fixed this issue for me. Good luck.

    Mike Witherell
    Community Expert
    Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 29, 2020

    With no objects selected (or with your problem textframe selected), go to Object > Textframe Options (Cmd/Ctrl+B) and go to the Auto-Size tab. You probably want it set to OFF, if no object frames are selected.

    Mike Witherell
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    lawrencec5049735
    Participant
    July 29, 2020
    Thank you for trying.
    It is set to 'off' but problem still exists.

    Thx.


    Larry Collins
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    lawrencec5049735
    Participant
    July 29, 2020

    Same issue here. Driving me crazy.

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 20, 2020

    Hi skald89,

    make one document with a dummy text frame available. You could attach it to your answer or upload it to Dropbox or a similar service. In this case please post a download link.

     

    Thanks,
    Uwe Laubender

    ( ACP )

    Ashutosh_Mishra
    Ashutosh_Mishra
    Inspiring
    May 20, 2020

    Hi there,

     

    Sorry to hear about your experience. I tried to replicate this on my end but did not see any problem with resizing of the text box as you mentioned. Would you mind sharing version of  the OS? Also, does it happen on a specific file or all?

    Looking forward to your response.

     

    Regards,

    Ashutosh

    Geоrge
    Geоrge
    Legend
    May 19, 2020

    Try to reset your InDesign settings, I don't have such behavior on my ID 15-0-3. 

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/troubleshooting-weird-indesign-problems-101-new/m-p/11006337

    Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner
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      skald89Author
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      May 19, 2020

      I followed almost all the steps and it didn't fix it. I deleted the library, uninstalled with removing preferences and installing it again. It does not fix it. 

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