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August 8, 2023
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Unable to copy/paste Share for Review comments after updating to INDD 18.5

  • August 8, 2023
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Since updating to 18.5 a couple days ago, I can no longer easily replace text in the documents from Share for Review comments. My coworkers place notes to replace text, and when I highlight and press copy, or right click to copy, nothing happens!! Now I have to manually type in their text, or go to my email notifications to copy the text. What gives!

Correct answer Rishabh_Tiwari

Yup. Still waiting. I have a 350 page book revision we are waiting on until this gets fixed because the time overhead isn't worth it.


Hi Everyone,

 

Thank you for your patience. We have started releasing InDesign 19.2, and we have fixed this issue since this is done in phases so, once available in your region, feel free to test and update this discussion if you need further assistance. Here is the link to an article with fixed issues in 19.2. 

 

Thanks

Rishabh

21 replies

Participant
October 18, 2023

I'm having this same issue (Mac M1). I'm sticking with 18.3 until this is resolved. This is still a problem in 2024. I'd rather not have to use the web review as my cut and paste option.

Participant
October 6, 2023

I'm having this issue too and it's 1000% maddening.....please please we need a fix for this ASAP

Participant
October 8, 2023

Completely agree - it's so maddening! Pretty much defeats the purpose of the review link if we can't work from within INDD. Might as well go back to PDF sticky notes!

Rishabh_Tiwari
Legend
October 9, 2023

Hi @nznellecat @Jay Mielke,

 

Sorry to hear about the trouble. I understand how frustrating this can be. The bug is already logged, and the team is working on it. Meanwhile, you can try to copy it from the browser view. 

 

Thanks
Rishabh

Community Expert
September 6, 2023

Hi together,

also had issues to copy/paste text from a comment.

It worked somehow after I was able to highlight text in a particular comment.

But the highlighting was not consistent, sometimes only parts of the highlighted text were copied.

Sometimes, when I highlighted all the text from a comment, the highlighting, my text selection suddenly shrank to a couple of words or one word without doing anything with my mouse…

 

I did this with InDesign 18.5. on macOS 12.6.2 on an older Intel iMac.

No screen scaling was done in the OS or in InDesign.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

Participant
September 6, 2023

Not working for me either 😞

Rishabh_Tiwari
Legend
September 7, 2023

Hi Everyone,

 

I am so sorry for the delay in the response. I have tested this on my end and was able to reproduce the issue, so I have escalated this with the team and will update the discussion as soon as I hear from them.

Thanks

Rishabh

Participant
September 15, 2023

Same issue here, no option to copy the text when reviewing inside of indesign.

vidare53417648
Participant
August 28, 2023

Same happens here. Please fix this issue. Being able to copy and paste from the review comments is an essential part of our workflow.

vidare53417648
Participant
August 28, 2023

Update: Copy and paste work on my other Mac with M2-processor. (The first test was done on an Intel Mac)

vidare53417648
Participant
August 28, 2023

Sorry. The M2-machine was running InDesign 18.3 not 18.5. My bad.

Participant
August 25, 2023

I'm having the same issue.

Participant
August 24, 2023

I having the same issue 😞 
Please give an update on that

Participant
August 22, 2023

I'm also having this issue since updating. Can't copy text from review comments inside of indesign. 

Participant
August 22, 2023

I also have this issue. If it's not possible to copy text in the review window, the feature is nearly useless! 

Participant
August 15, 2023

I'm having the same issue. Unable to copy and paste from comments within the review window in Indesign.