I'm leaning towards it being caused by the Magic Mouse under Windows as when I switched to the standard Dell that work supplies the issue didn't reoccur (or if it did it was very seldom). Perhaps it's something to do with how the scrolling gets communicated, but it's only InDesign that seems to have this sort of issue. InDesign is very prone to the screen scrolling wildly at the slightest touch of the scrolling surface which again no other application seems to suffer from. So I'm guessing it's a combination of the two. ... View more

No 3rd party plugins. The only thing that I can think of that's common to both laptops is that I use an Apple Mouse so I have Magic Mouse Utilities installed, and it's an old version as I have the original mouse. I can try disabling that on my home computer (work too hard as it's all locked down and I had to pull favours to get it installed!). I thought it might be graphics card related? Work is Intel/RTX3000 and home is AMD/RTX3050 but both are pretty common. And InDesign on Windows doesn't use the dedicated graphics as far as I know (hence comment about being a poor cousin...) I was sorta hoping this would trigger an avalanche of "yes that happens to me too and it's always bugged me" but maybe I am indeed alone... ... View more

Hi Abhiskek, This happens on anything I work on, so it's not the file. InDesign is up to date, no updates pending. But it's been doing this for at least a year so it's been through a few versions. The files are generally on my hard drive, synched to SharePoint but essentially local. I'm using two external monitors however I get the same thing when just working on my laptop without any etxernal screens. Given it's persisted across two work laptops and my home laptop I figured this might be a universal problem and not just something localised to me? It's like the screen sometimes doesn't refresh properly when something changes. You know, if you drag objects around the screen then other objects will momentarily get corrupted, say, a 10% opacity box will look 100% in sections as you drag something over it but once you let the mouse button go it all refreshes to how it should be. It seems that in that process certain sections of the display are redrawn in a slightly incorrect position and it takes a screen refresh (like entering/existing preview mode) to force it to redraw in the right spot. ... View more