Weird text editing bugs

[stefang78982396]

Every once in a while InDesign reacts strangely (or not at all) when I try to edit some text I’ve marked. Tabbing through the panel’s fields, the settings don’t take effect or – even more annoying – pressing the return key after entering a value (like font size) deletes the marked text.

[Derek Cross]

Which version of InDesign and OS?

[stefang78982396]

CC 2017 on a Mac running Sierra

[BobLevine]

Known bug. Turn on the application frame and read through the other threads on this topic.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

And disable Type Contextual Controls in Preferences > Advanced Type:

[BobLevine]

Refresh my memory, Barb. Is this an and/or situation or do you need to do both?

[Barb Binder]

Great question, Bob. I was't aware of the need to turn on the application frame. Because I teach so many Windows students, I keep it on all the time so it hasn't come up for me at all—either in class or during layout.

[BobLevine]

This seems to be a Mac-only bug

[stefang78982396]

Switching on the bulky app frame and disabling features? Sounds a bit like car that’s only running with open windows and the radio turned off ... thanks anyway

[winterm]

You've got the best possible workaround in a meantime, from the users like you.

While Adobe is still working on an actual solution.

[winterm]

FWIW:

Some people complain they still have issues even with app frame ON. Some not. Known places bug affects are: The Paragraph Panel, the Control Panel and the Color Panel. Also one can encounter issues working with tabs in text. Disabling Type Contextual Controls usually helps anyway.

That said, it's possibly OR situation, but to be on a safe side you better treat it as AND.

[Barb Binder]

I'm going to add that mid-layout this week with textual controls off and the application frame on, I crashed so many times in a row, I had to return to 2015 to finish the job. I was so happy to be able to just open the 2017 file in 2015, wait 45 seconds for the conversion and pick up where I left off.

[winterm]

BarbBinder wrote:

crashed so many times in a row

Huh... that's why I still stick with CS6 for 'real' jobs. Not so eager for adventures anymore. Getting older...

BobLevine​

It's definitely so. Couldn't recreate it by any means on my CC2017 'test' copy on Win10.