Zoom Tool Stopped keyboard shortcut working Indesign CC 2017

[Mitchell39]

I am running Indesign CC 2017 on OS Sierra.

After switching my mac on and launching IND the Zoom keyboards shortcut has decided to not work.

Restarted IND

Rebooted Mac

Still not working, its now driving me nuts

please advise if you have a solution

[Laubender]

Hi Mitchell,

just tested the Zoom keyboard shortcuts cmd+ and cmd- with InDesign CC 2017 on Mac OSX 10.10.5 (German).
All is working as expected. Maybe some KBSCs from Mac OS are using your InDesign KBSCs?

Regards,
Uwe

[Mitchell39]

Thanbks for that.

What I was trying to explain and not very well, was, if I use the Zoom tool in the tool palette and want to zoom into a certain area of my IND file (Click and drag) it does not work

[Laubender]

No problem with using the Zoom tool on my side. It works as expected: Maximum zoom to 4,000 %, minimum zoom to 5 %. Also no problem with accessing the Zoom tool with a keyboard shortcut or using it temporarily by pressing cmd+space bar (also adding the alt key for changing the zoom to minus).

Don't know, if Mac OSX Sierra has changed something on that. I'm testing with the older OSX 10.10.5.

Regards,
Uwe

[bcb61]

The keyboard command that no longer works is "command spacebar" which used to make a marquee that zoomed the area selected.

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

bcb61 wrote:

The keyboard command that no longer works is "command spacebar" which used to make a marquee that zoomed the area selected.

Just tested that with InDesign CC 2017 on Mac OSX 10.10.5:

No problem so far.

However the combination is:

spacebar + cmd in exactly that order,

first spacebar then add cmd.

If that's unfortunate, e.g. if you selected some text,

press alt followed by cmd followed by spacebar

and then release the alt key.

Regards,
Uwe

[Barb Binder]

Try deselecting Animated Zoom in Preferences > GPU Performance:

[bcb61]

thank you! I used to make a point of pressing command first in order to avoid inadvertently putting spaces in text — or worse — deleting a bunch of text altogether. 

Why, I wonder, would they change this?

[Steve Werner]

Animated Zoom is very popular in Illustrator and Photoshop. If you don't like it turn it off as Barbara points out.

[rickyharris]

I had the same problem. to fix it I restarted my macbook pro and held down the command and option Plus the P and R buttons to zap the P Ram. Its now fixed.