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Formation Creative
Formation Creative
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August 4, 2025
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Three circles on copied graphic

  • August 4, 2025
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Does anybody know what this three-circle icon means or does? It appeared when I copied a grey rectangle and a textbox from one doc to another. I set up both docs from scratch, so it's not someone else's setup. 

Never seen it before in the decade or so I've been using indd... Any ideas?

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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August 5, 2025

Are you sure it isn't part of the "gray rectangle"? Perhaps it's there, but cropped off, in the original image you copied?

Formation Creative
Formation CreativeAuthor
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August 5, 2025

@Peter Spier Thanks for commenting! 
Na, it scales when I zoom in, so it was an indicator of an effect applied to the shape. 
However, when I went back to check the source, just to be sure, I saw an extra line coming off of it. Turns out I had accidentally made an animation for the block. It's an icon to indicate there is an animation on the object. 

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