Pressing Alt on Windows brings focus to the top menu and pressing a following letter is interpreted as an access key, opening a menu. This in itself is good for accessibility and productivity.

However, in InDesign Alt is also pressed to zoom with the scroll view. I very often press W to toggle preview mode and very, very often press Alt to zoom. Several times an hour the Window menu flies open due to me pressing W after Alt has been pressed.

I suggest scrolling should move focus away from the top menu. This allows you to still use Alt access keys when you want to but without accidentally triggering them after using Alt for zooming.

Styles are implemented in InDesign since... well, for ever. The options and settings grew a lot over the years BUT it still looks and feels the same. Old and unflexible. There is a styles window with your collected styles and to edit those you have your Style Options window. Basically that´s it.

Practically that means you have to open each style individually, make your changes individually (although you want equally changes), check if design and layout still works, edit each style... again... individually.

Please find a way to improve working/handling styles e.g. for collective changes or simultaneously opening multiple Style Options windows for a better comparison. Any way to work faster ON (not only with) styles is appreciated.

I guess there are some plugins out there in the web that might help, but that´s just a workaround. Styles are InDesigns biggest strength and InDesigns needs to keep up with the times itself.

Situation now:
When opening a book file Indesign adds a book panel showing all contained documents. You can then open documents through this panel. I usually dock the panel to the right with my other panels to keep the workspace tight and clean.

But now the tricky part:
When I close all documents I've set Indesign to return to the Start workspace. This shift to another workspace makes the book panel disappear as well (since it is docked with the other panels). I have to go to the menus to find the panel again.
I guess the reason for this behaviour is because the book panel is sort of conditional: it only appears when you have opened a book file.

Solution:
If it could be a fixed panel (showing even when no book file is open) we could somehow add it to the Start workspace and open another document through that panel.

Or add the currently open files to the Start workspace?

Description:

I have multiple files open at once.

When finished working on the first, if I close it, InDesign will skip to the last file that was opened, rather the next file in the order.

See attached - I closed “untitled 1” and it skipped to “untitled 5” rather than going to “untitled 2” which is next in line.

Why this would be valuable:

This interrupts an expected workflow to InDesign's usual left to right UI direction.

InDesign allows users to reorder the file tabs to suit their needs. Skipping to the end file in unexpected behaviour and switching back to the next file in order can be particularly annoying when you have a lot of files open and you need to select the one you want through the dropdown list.

This has also lead to problems for me in the past when lot of the files look the same, and I've started to edit the wrong file.