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1. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Steve Werner Mar 5, 2014 11:28 AM (in response to cindy2k4)Start by restoring your preferences. This document describes how:
Trash, Replace, Reset, or Restore the application Preferences
On a recent version of Mac OS X like yours, the <Home> Library folder is hidden. To reveal it, in the Finder hold down the Option key and select Go > Library.
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2. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 5, 2014 11:48 AM (in response to Steve Werner)I tried what you suggested and I'm still having trouble. (Also, I couldn't find the InDesign SavedData folder, but I did find the Defaults.)
Are there any other ways of fixing this?
If it helps, when I open a file, it opens up on the last page and I am able to use the selection and type tools on that page. But I can't use them on about the first three or four pages of the file. I also tried to open my document template and create a new document copy-and-pasted from Word, and couldn't do it.
I am able to move the cursor with the arrow keys if I place it at a point in the document where it does work, and then correct by typing. But if I try to copy and paste something, the cursor disappears and I just get the pointer/box/I-beam icon again.
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3. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 5, 2014 1:40 PM (in response to cindy2k4)@Cindy – maybe your problem could be related to this one:
CarloNico
Can't select when I click in a box of type – is it a bug?
03.03.2014 05:45
When I click in a box for the first time I can't select the type – can you?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1419446?tstart=0
No solution yet…
Uwe
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4. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 5, 2014 1:49 PM (in response to Laubender)Thanks. I have checked out that thread before, but it doesn't seem to help me either. On the first three pages of my longer files, I can't click at all.
I should probably also mention that I don't seem to have that issue on a shorter (2-page) file. I had to update a short file earlier today and had no problems at all with it. It's just on longer files that this happens - the cursor works on page 4 and afterward but not on the first three pages.
I never had this problem with CS4 - is it just on CC?
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5. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 5, 2014 9:30 PM (in response to cindy2k4)@Cindy – I never had that problem with my installed InDesign versions CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8, also no problem with my CS6 on OSX 10.7.5.
Since you are using InDesign CC v9.2.0 with one or maybe more 3rd party plug ins, could you check, if the problems go away, if you temporarily uninstall all 3rd party plug ins and do a restart of your machine?
Do you totally rely on the new features of InDesign CC? Focus is on ePub, hyperlinks, web-fonts and QR code.
Otherwise you could switch to InDesign CS6 which also comes along with your CC subscription. WorldTools by In-Tools will work with CS6 as well.
Uwe
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6. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 5, 2014 9:50 PM (in response to Laubender)Thanks for the suggestion. How do you uninstall a plugin? I’ve never had to do that before, and the InDesign manual only tells you how to install one.
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7. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 5, 2014 10:33 PM (in response to cindy2k4)@Cindy – usually all 3rd party developers will provide some information for installing and uninstalling their products. First see if you can find some information on their web sites.
Also there should be a dedicated Adobe Extension Manager app where you can look up the installed parts of InDesign. Since I do not have InDesign CC installed, I do not know exactly, but its name should be something like "Adobe Extension Manager CC".
If you start this app it will show all parts installed with InDesign (or other apps that are installed).
Usually at the bottom of the list are the 3rd party installed components. They do not state "Adobe Incoroprate System" as author. Never uninstall (remove) the Adobe ones!
Here a screen grab from my German Adobe Extension Manager CS5:
If you select one, a new option is available at the right. In my case here the "Entfernen" button ("Remove" in English).
Uwe
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8. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 5, 2014 11:12 PM (in response to Laubender)Thanks for the reply. The Extension Manager in CC doesn’t show third-party plugins, and all I could find on the In-Tools website was a suggestion to remove the plugins from the InDesign folder. I tried dragging the plugins to another folder, but only ended up creating aliases instead of moving them.
Any other suggestions?
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9. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 5, 2014 11:28 PM (in response to cindy2k4)… but only ended up creating aliases instead of moving them.
@Cindy – did you quit InDesign before doing this?
Have you admin rights with your user account on your machine? File permissions checked with the plug in files?
Dragging out plugins should work…
Uwe
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10. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 6, 2014 7:55 AM (in response to cindy2k4)@Cindy – is there any progress on your side?
( just asking )Uwe
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11. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 6, 2014 8:01 AM (in response to Laubender)Thanks for the reply. So far I’m not having any luck. I have posted a query on the In-Tools messageboard to see if anyone there also has any suggestions.
I tried resetting my preferences (as suggested earlier upthread) and that didn’t work either.
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12. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 12, 2014 2:21 PM (in response to cindy2k4)The problem has been solved!
It was a preferences issue: "prevent selection of locked objects" was checked, and I had to uncheck it.
My InDesign works just fine now, and so does the World Tools plugin.
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13. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
Laubender Mar 12, 2014 10:55 PM (in response to cindy2k4)@Cindy – this is sounding strange…
Were the text frames on the first few pages initally locked when you tried to edit them?Uwe
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14. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 13, 2014 10:38 AM (in response to Laubender)Apparently they were, and that was the problem. It wasn’t the World Tools plugin, but the preferences, and that’s why resetting the preferences didn’t work - I had to go into my preferences menu and actually change the “locked objects” setting.
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15. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
P Spier Mar 13, 2014 11:46 AM (in response to cindy2k4)Resetting prefs would actually activate the option to prevent selection of locked objects as it's the default condition.
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16. Re: Selection and Type Tools not working in InDesign CC for Mac
cindy2k4 Mar 13, 2014 12:36 PM (in response to P Spier)Thanks for the reply. That must be why resetting my preferences didn’t fix the problem and changing them did.




