The properties panel in the October 2018 version of InDesign is a great feature, however the implementation of Styles in the Text Insertion mode provides no feedback on whether or not overrides exist in the selected text, nor does it provide a means to clear any overrides. This provides a significant stumbling block for new users, who may end up redefining styles and applying more overrides to their text trying to fix display issues, not realising that the problem is overrides.

Building out the functionality to better reflect the existing Styles panels - at least in regards to locating and fixing overrides - would help prevent this.

CC Libraries exist to make it fast to add pre-built content to an INDD. Text does not have a quick way of placing inline - you must right click and click place content. Annoying when doing hundreds of times.

Two solutions:
1. Right clicking on a library element should have "keyboard shortcut" adjacent "rename". When a keyboard shortcut is added, show that shortcut on the right side of the element in the CC Library panel.
2. Add 'text expander' feature. Right click on a text library element and have option for 'expand text on...' where a unique phrase can be associated with the text library element, e.g. |16| When |16| is typed it should expand into the text from the Library automatically.

Scrolling with Apple Magic Mouse sends the document flying over numerous pages.

While I appreciate that this issue has been a stand off between Apple & Adobe, us users simply can't switch out our mouse. This stand off is hostile to users, it's infantile and unprofessional. In design studios we use this application all day long, 90% of my work will eventually go through InDesign.

As a minimum please provide the option to automatically disable scrolling when using Adobe InDesign, optimally just detect the mouse and change the scrolling behaviour to no longer be user hostile.

Adobe has the opportunity here to show they care.

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.

I would like to see in CC InDesign the ability to see where you're zoomed in at in your pages window. Also, I'd like to be able to click and hold onto the highlight zoomed in the area on the pages window and move it to update the preview when I let go of the highlighted zoom box.

This would be helpful for us users that create large catalogs and would like to quickly JUMP-TO a portion of a page. With large catalog files, the program can get sluggish/slow. When the user has to scroll through a bunch of pages or even zoom out, the display lags and causes freezing or lagging issues. I think that if I were able to jump to the portion of the page that I wanted, it would help reduce these issues that I am having and as an added bonus, I would know where I am at on the current page.

I've attached an example of this idea to this suggestion. (yes, I know my example is from CS6, but this suggestion is for CC for when i upgrade to it at the beginning of the next year)

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?