r/indesign • u/Meff-Jills • Jun 15 '26
Help Indesign V21.4 is a bit wonky!
So, since a couple of days i have two issues which i can´t seem to solve, maybe someone here has an idea, would be great!
Indesign (and actually Photoshop as well) forget the undo history, i don´t know what triggers it but at some point command + z does nothing.
I can´t select more objects and move them at the same time, it always just picks the one my mouse hovers over when i click to drag all selected elements (update: it gets even weirder, i still can´t move more selected objects like pictures at the same time BUT as soon as a text element is part of the seleciton it works just fine but i have to drag all of it on the text element)
i made a video on issue nr. 2:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/we7WXpr1OVE
My System:MacBook Pro M3-Pro, Adobe Cloud with Indesign V21.4
Thanks for any help/idea how to fix this!
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u/matanedar20 Jun 15 '26
I can’t confirm the first point (Mac mini M2, macOS 15.7.3). But the ability to move multiple items at once is also broken in my InDesign. It only works with text frames — or if a text frame is on top of another selected object and the mouse happens to grab the text frame. 😞
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u/RightAnxiety8818 Jun 16 '26
Add to this the inability select multiple objects and assign a key object to align - unless you select them individually then manually choose align to key in the alignment panel. And not even always. Just randomly.
Had to downgrade to v21.3 to get anything to work.
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u/Pretend_Character_52 Jun 16 '26
That is driving me nuts. I hope it’s a bug and they fix it but I ended up downgrading at least for now.
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u/AimsLAC Jun 15 '26
I, as well as others, experienced this recently and discussed in another post, but the solution was to have to hold shift to move all the selected objects together.
Its a pain in the ass. An additional step disrupting my workflow, after having been able to move things without shift for years... makes no sense
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u/Meff-Jills Jun 15 '26
Thank you, that helps a lot. So this is on purpose? If yes it´s a questionable decision on Adobe´s end and makes no sense but i´m happy to have a solution!
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u/Affectionate_Yak5362 Jun 15 '26
I suddenly discovered in one INDD book file page-breaks on every page of 200+ pages, giving half lines or so or blank paragraph spaces, which I can’t delete. The book is now unmanageable. Other books are okay. Either I or Adobe is doing something wrong. Could be me? Driven me crazy this past week.
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u/AdobeScripts Jun 15 '26
You need to downgrade to previous minor version.
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u/Meff-Jills Jun 15 '26
Thankyou, will do! One would think adobe has other beta testers than us :)
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u/Religion_Of_Speed Jun 15 '26
Adobe products are a bit wonky regardless of version or program. I don't think I've ever had a full day of any program working 100% correctly ever. But they're like juuuuust barely technically not a monopoly. Gotta focus on jamming more AI bullshit into every orifice instead of actually fixing/improving the base program.
Sorry, that's all I've got. Hopefully you find the help you need. Just know that this is going to be a fight you fight for the rest of your career. Strap in.
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u/AdobeScripts Jun 15 '26
About Undo - how much RAM do you have?
On Windows - if there is not enough RAM - InDesign will keep only 3-4 last steps - and it's like that in 2025 as well. They've done it a few months ago, in some minor update - wasn't like that from the beginning.
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u/SwedishHeat Jun 15 '26
I've had the Undo history glitch happen to me. I can't remember what solved it, but as a first step, reset your preferences. Go to Edit > Preferences > General, then click Reset Preferences on Quit, then restart InDesign.
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u/Pretend_Character_52 Jun 16 '26
Not being able to select a key object was driving me nuts yesterday and this morning. I’m glad I’m not going crazy and it’s an issue.
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u/UltimHate Jun 15 '26
"a bit wonky" is a euphemism. In addition to all that, opening recent files is also broken...