Can't fix layout when marking several paragraphs of text

[ylvas28211327]

We have experienced a problem with the possibility to mark a segment of text and do something with the layout after the latest update of InDesign (to CC2017). We use Mac at our workplace.

Before, it was possible to mark a segment of text, several paragraphs at the same time, and do stuff with the text. For instance, that the first line in every paragraph should have an indentation of 3 mm. When we do that now, all of the text disappears and is substituted with a 3.

We find that it only works when we put the cursor in the text, no text marked. So when we need to do the same thing with several paragraphs of text, we have to do the manoeuvre once for every paragraph.

Anyone else who has experienced the same problem? Found a solution? We’re crossing our fingers that this is a bug that will soon be fixed because it means quite a lot of extra work for us…

[BobLevine]

I believe this has been discussed and is a known bug.

[Barb Binder]

It's a known issue, and Adobe has indicated that they aware of it. Can you use ¶ styles in the meantime? It's a more efficient workflow for controlling paragraph formatting anyway.

InDesign CC 2017 problem with paragraph windows

[ylvas28211327]

Thanks, we use that quite often but we don’t have set styles for everything 🙂

[Barb Binder]

Hopefully, this will be fixed soon. (Fingers crossed!)

[CanBeer]

Does anyone know if and when Adobe will be fixing the formatting issue described in this thread (2017 release of InDesign)? Its beyond aggravating having to select individual lines to format rather than whole chunks of text. Seems like a major bug that was overlooked on release. Maybe there is a workaround like resetting preferences? Anyone have any insight or luck with this?

[BobLevine]

Did you try the workarounds?

[Barb Binder]

Maybe there is a workaround

Did you try turning off Type Contextual Controls in Preferences > Advanced Type?

[CanBeer]

Perfect. That did the trick. Thanks so much!

[Laubender]

One solution could be turning on "Application Frame" under menu "Window".

Regards,
Uwe

[ylvas28211327]

Frans van der Geest (ACP):

I did try to search the forum without finding anything, no doubt because I didn’t know exactly what words to search for. But thanks to this, I could find the answer – thank you!

jane-e:

And I’m sorry about the double question, it’s my first time at this forum and it seemed to me that I had hit the wrong button and erased the first one : - ( And then I could’t find how to delete one of them.

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