“Resize Horizontally” — how to use?

[PleaseWork1978]

Found this command under Object Editing under Keyboard Shortcuts (screenshot below) — tried using it, i.e. Opt+Shift+H, on frames, and images within frames, but nothing happens.

What am I missing?

Does anybody know what other “objects” this could be referring to?

Thanks in advance.

Keyboard Shortcuts > Object Editing > Resize Horizontally (Opt+Shift+H).

[Chad Chelius]

You've dug pretty deep into the recesses of InDesign here. What "Resize Horizontally" refers to is the Object based Liquid Layout functionality when using the Liquid Layout feature in InDesign. If you select the Page tool and open the Liquid Layout panel (Window > Interactive > Liquid Layout), you'll see that the shortcut for the option you are inquiring about turns on the Width property for "Resize with Page". It's a pretty obscure feature but basically controls how an object resizes when the page is resized using the Page tool.

[PleaseWork1978]

Opened Liquid Layout panel (selected Object-based layout) and selected the Page tool, even tried going from facing pages to single pages, still don’t see resize horizontally, or vertically, highlighted (screenshot below)?

At this point it’s merely for curiosity’s sake, these features fall outside my current workflow.

Thanks for providing clarity at any rate. Cheers.

Liquid Layout Panel open (Object-based selected), Page tool selected.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

You need to select a frame with the Selection tool (not the Page tool). This command tells the frame what to do if you resize the page.

[PleaseWork1978]

Got it. Yeah I kept merely focusing on the page tool itself without trying any other tools or the move tools.

This lead finally helped me to witness the key command in action.

Thanks.

[Barb Binder]

We are always happy to help.

~Barb