Random de-selection

[pelicanmanufacturing]

I've found this to be an issue ever since I first started using indesign 3 years ago, and its' occurrence is rare so there has to be a reason behind it happening. How come sometimes when shift selecting objects, other random objects that you have already selected will unselect themselves? For example, I am selecting 4 random objects on my spread, I select 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, and object 2 unselects itself when I selected object 4?

[fenjas29325284]

Never click on overlapping areas. Sometimes they are hardly recognizable.

Fenja

[pelicanmanufacturing]

not overlapping in this case they were all separate strokes not even touching

[Bill Silbert]

Are you using the group selection tool (black arrow) or the direct selection tool (the white arrow)? I've seen similar results to yours when using the direct selection tool but not with the group selection tool.

[pelicanmanufacturing]

Direct selection tool, I wonder if this if an old bug that has never been fixed

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

Yes. It's been like that for awhile. You can report this as a bug at: Feature Request/Bug Report Form .

[Laubender]

anthonymuscawork  wrote

Direct selection tool, I wonder if this if an old bug that has never been fixed

I can confirm this. See into this thread here where Jan did some experimenting:

Direct selection arrow bug in Indesign CC2017

Regards,
Uwe

[DBLjan]

I can only share, besides Im still on CC2017 and that maybe have changed, that you have to be careful while klicking:
try to dont click borders/hull and anchors while using the white arrow.