Justification, while pleasing to the eye from the perspective of an entire page, creates problems. Hyphenation can correct this, to some degree, but it too has its problems. In the end, when justifying text, certain lines of text end up being scrunched while many others leave wide open spaces between words.

In doing my best to correct for these problems, I tend to make most use of the horizontal scale feature. I often find that most of these visual blemishes (scrunching or overly-wide word spacing) can be corrected by either reducing the horizontal scale down to about 97% (in the case of scrunching), or increasing it to (usually) 103 to 106%. In the worst cases, I have found a need to increase the horizontal scale to as much as 112% or more. When this is necessary, I have found that compensating by reducing the vertical scale to 97% often visually corrects for most of the weird look created in the letters by stretching them to 112% or more.

I would like to see a feature where InDesign could auto-correct for justification problems such as these. It would obviously need to analyze the spaces between each word. When the visually pleasing average spacing is ruined by justification, this justification auto-correct feature would employ similar changes as I have described, above.

This would of course require a new element introduced in the Paragraph Style Options window, possibly called "Justification Auto-Correct," with a similar on-off check box akin to the one on the Hyphenation tab, and with standards set of reducing scrunched lines by as much as 3% horizontal scale (to 97%) and a standard of up to (at least) 106% as a standard. As already noted, exceeding 108 or 109%, in my experience, tends to get to the point where the letters look stretched--too much. Thus, an option to allow for reducing the vertical scale (standard up to 97% perhaps) when the horizontal scale exceeds a certain amount would be prudent to include in this feature, as well.

I can spend HOURS manually correcting these justification problems. I would imagine that most people simply ignore them, because they are pesky, require you to read through the text carefully in order to spot them, and---when you make changes--require you to remove the manual correction you have made.

It would be nice if you could easily see as one of the views of styles (paragraph, character, and object) a hierarchy of which styles are based on each other. Like a cascade of styles. I work on long documents and books that use LOTS of styles and besides the normal view and alphabetical view, it would be nice to be able to "sort" by hierarchy, perhaps with the swivel arrow, like when you have different styles in grouped folders. For instance, we have "text" and then "text left" and "text centered," and so on, but they are all based on "text," and on down from there. . . . so it would help give a visual of the complicated structure of our styles and see more easily if I have my child styles based on the correct parent style.

Allow multiple character styles to be applied to one character.
There should be an »appearance« panel as in Illustrator, which reflects the hierarchy of multiple applied character styles to one character/a text.

This would ease the work with XML and reduce the number of character styles needed. Nowadays you have to trick with GREP styles etc. to apply multiple character styles to one character.
With such a feature, I could define »italic« and »bold« and has no need to define »bold italic«. This will even end up in better HTML export: instead of <span class="BoldItalic">blabl</span> there could be the much better <strong><em>blablabl</em></strong> output.

Currently, there is no way other than the undesirable "book" workaround method to have a set of Paragraph Styles - that can be updated globally accross multiple InDesign documents.

There should be some way to synchronize and update styles (Paragraph and Character Styles especially) across multiple InDesign documents.

This could be done by some kind of external "Styles" library (ideally, both Local and or Cloud based) that can be applied to an .indd file, that when updated or changed, will then update or change any document using that same Styles Library.

Currently, it is very difficult to keep Styles updated across documents. If you build one template file, and save out copies of it, any changes made in the original template or in any of the copies you have made are local to that document and in no way can stay in sync with all others. This is madness.

2018 Adobe… this has been an issue for so long. Please fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!