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Red Dog Graphics
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February 12, 2020
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Turn OFF New Feature "Direct Selection" in Selected Box

  • February 12, 2020
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When I select a box in InDesign using the Selection Tool (A), I do NOT want the "Direct Selection" ("Let me move your graphic in ways you don't want") circle or whatever it's called to affect my selected box.

 

Is there any way to turn this new "Direct Selection within a Selected Box" feature off? It does not help me manipulate a graphic. It gets in the way, slows me down, and makes me say bad words because I'm constantly trying to avoid the demonic little circle.

 

Please tell me there's a way to turn off this irritating new and not improved feature of the most basic tool in Indesign?

    Correct answer Steve Werner

    Try this to get rid of the "donut hole":

     

    View > Extras > Hide Content Grabber

     

    BTW, it's not a new feature: It's been around since InDesign CS5, as I recall, over ten years ago!

     

     

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    Steve Werner
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    Steve WernerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    February 12, 2020

    Try this to get rid of the "donut hole":

     

    View > Extras > Hide Content Grabber

     

    BTW, it's not a new feature: It's been around since InDesign CS5, as I recall, over ten years ago!

     

     

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      Red Dog GraphicsAuthor
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      February 12, 2020

      Bless you, Steve Werner.

      I've used InDesign since it was Aldus PageMaker in the 90s, straight through every version Adobe produced after acquiring the software. The demonic Content Grabber showed up only after I installed the lastest InDesign CC update a few days ago. Ghost in the machine, I guess.

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