ALT + rotate now duplicates objects instead of anchoring the opposite point

[Sesamme]

all my life I used ALT to fixate the opposite point of an object to rotate instead of the center. In the recent version (versions?) of InDesign this function now duplicates an object while rotating. Can I revert to how it was before? Or do I have to downgrade a version? which one is the last one that had it working propperly?

(Indd 16.2.1, Windows 10)

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

I don't recall that using the ALT key (or Option key on a Mac) ever did what you're saying. Alt/Option dragging has always been a way to make a copy of an object. Are you using the Rotate tool or are you rotating using the Bounding Box that appears when the regular selection tool is active? With the Rotate tool you can rotate around a chosen point by clicking on a point of an object (with the Rotate tool active in the Tool Panel) and then rotating the object around that chosen point. You can either drag from a point opposite the chosen point with the tool itself or you can double-click on the Rotate Tool and enter a value in degrees in the Rotate Tool dialog that appears. 

[Sesamme]

You are right. I must have had a glitch in my brain. Maybe it's a memory of some very old version. Or maybe I just got used to that in some other software, and was confused when got back to working with Indesign.

I still think it should be a feature request - I would like to be able to use some key, not necessary ALT, to rotate an object around the opposite corner in Free Transform mode (without switching to Rotate tool)...