Please make it so that OpenType stylistic alternates can be accessed through paragraph and/or character styles. For instance, my OT font has an alternate form of capital W which I prefer to the default form. It is listed in the Glyphs panel as Stylistic Alternates (salt). However, there is no way to activate this alternate W without manually replacing all default capital Ws with the alternate form I prefer. And even when I do that, reapplying a Paragraph Style to any paragraph where I've changed the W will revert the W to the default. I would like to at least be able to create a GREP style which would automatically apply this stylistic alternate to every instance of "W".

We had to change the font we're using for a checkbox in one of our paragraph styles. We have it set up under Paragraph Style Options / Bullets and Numbering. To add a character you want to use for a bullet character, you click add. There is no way to sort glyphs (by math symbols, greek, etc.) in the next window, and there are no scroll buttons. You have to grab the handle on the screen and scroll, and it jumps so fast, you can't navigate from one screen to the next. It just took me 20 minutes to find the "LOWERED RIGHT DROP-SHADOWED RIGHT SQUARE" character for a check box. You can't copy it from another place and paste it in to this window. We use the feature a lot. We used to use Zaph Dingbats, but for some reason have had a lot of problems with the font lately, even after purchasing a new version. We searched many fonts to find this character available in a font all our users and translation agencies would have. (We translate our technical and sales documents to 12 other languages.) After trying to fix this style in all 12 languages, I would like to say - love the feature...do NOT love the interface. Is there a way this could work more like the glyph palette?

In previous versions of ID i've been able to select the pencil tool (with no document open) and set it to a specific stroke and color and every time I would then click on the pencil tool to draw, it would do so with those specifications. In the latest CC version, that feature seems to be gone and now I draw and THEN have to set a stroke and color, which really slows me down! Tell me I'm not crazy like the pompous people in the forum! :)

When I'm doing a layout and sending images out for color work, I can create a retouching layer and mark up all my requests.

I'm working on a huge training book with dozens of styles. I've stashed them in style groups, but it is still a chore, even inside a group, to scroll, scroll, scroll to try to find the style I need -- and it is also a chore to switch among the style groups themselves -- as many of the styles are used on every page due to the nature of the material. It would be SO VERY HELPFUL if one could color-code paragraph styles (a la the Layers palette) so that when there are this many styles, the ones a person needs can be spotted and accessed more quickly. I am in and out of the paragraph palette every 5-10 seconds, scrolling, scrolling, and it's driving me nuts.

When I click on a paragraph or character with the text tool, InDesign’s style panel automatically jumps to and highlights the paragraph or character style, which is applied to the paragraph or character.
(From now on please read the word »style« as »paragraph or character style«.)

But sadly the applied style is always shown as the very last item or the very first in the visible list of style panel. There are styles above and styles below this style in the whole list. (See »Standard-behaviour.png«.)

It’s easy to access the items above (respectively below): I simply can click on them.
But actually most of the time I need to change the style to a style, which directly lies outside the visible area below or above the applied style. So I always have to scroll first before I can select the style I need.

This is annoying! So my wish (feature request):
Please show the applied style centered in the style panel (see »My-wish.png«)!

It would be nice to create named subversions of the same style instead of just marking the changed paragraph styles with a + sign.

Then such subversions of one style will be saved with an additional qualifying name, and they can be quickly assigned in the right place in the text, instead of manually marking up the text.

This is somewhat similar to the existing style group, but with slightly different functionality.

Let's say we need to build a table of contents. In this case, each heading has its own level of hierarchy, but several different paragraph styles cannot be placed at the same level of the hierarchy. If we could use the common thin style group name instead of a specific paragraph style name, a lot of nasty things would be solved.

Another example concerns text variables for paragraph styles when creeping headings are applied. Several sections of the same publication may have different hierarchical structures, and different paragraph styles may fall on the same hierarchy level.

Therefore, the introduction of versions of a single paragraph style would allow not to complicate the structure of the document too much by using many master spreads and manual control over them.

I have wanted this feature in InDesign forever, so I'm putting in a formal request :)
It would be so great if "Case" could be overridden as a part of a paragraph style. So you could set a heading style to be All Caps, or Title Case and it would override the existing casing when you applied the style, and reverted when you removed the style. This would be such a time saver for me working on long reports etc where the original author has paid no attention to case consistency, or when you decide you want to make all your Level 1 headings All Caps as a design choice.

Seems like this should be easy enough for the geniuses at Adobe to implement. PLEASE!!!

I have wanted this feature in InDesign forever, so I'm putting in a formal request :)
It would be so great if "Case" could be overridden as a part of a paragraph style. So you could set a heading style to be All Caps, or Title Case and it would override the existing casing when you applied the style, and reverted when you removed the style. This would be such a time saver for me working on long reports etc where the original author has paid no attention to case consistency, or when you decide you want to make all your Level 1 headings All Caps as a design choice.

Seems like this should be easy enough for the geniuses at Adobe to implement. PLEASE!!!