"History" in InDesign?

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September 22, 2020
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Is there anything in InDesign comparable to Photoshop's "history?"

I'm working on a 40-page magazine and all of a sudden I have a blank page. I could have sworn there was already something there but I have no idea what it might be.

I don't want to "Undo" until I find a as I might be wrong and it was always blank.

How to

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Correct answer active_Brilliance1549

Thanks guys. I finally found what it was just by chance.

barbara_a7746676

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65bit software https://www.65bit.com/ has a utility called MultiDo that is free and can be installed for InDesign. It is similar to the history panel, but tt is not a panel. Instead it appears under the Edit menu.

65Bit also has a history panel for InDesign called EasyHistory, but that is not free.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Another thought: you might have ON in the preferences, the setting for Smart Text Reflow (Preferences > Type > Smart Text Reflow) that causes the document to add on a page and flow overset text onto it. I dislike this feature at late stage layout work, and so turn it off.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

https://www.65bit.com/software/easyhistory/

Mike Witherell

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

You can always go back and forward using Carl/Cmd+Z to Undo back to the last saved state and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo to the current one. That’s about as good as it gets.

Good luck,

Randy