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Easier to rearrange document tabs

I often have many different documents open in tabs but not in separate windows. I drag the tabs together so that InDesign's screen looks sort of like a browser with multiple tabs at the top. But only the selected tab is visible in the main windows. But rearranging these tabs in my preferred order is VERY finicky. I have to drag precisely left or precisely right, and about half the time my tab, instead of rearranging, opens in a new window. Frustrating.

The solution would be to recode so that when you drag a tab left or right to rearrange, OR to drag the tab for a separate window into a tab group, you have a buffer of a certain number of pixels above and below the tab group before you decide the user wants to move the tab, instead of into the tab group, into a new window.

Related to this, there is an option Window > Arrange > New Window for [nameoffile]. Why not an option for Window > Arrange > New TAB for [maneoffile]?

Thanks for listening.

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  • SHJ commented  ·   ·  Report

    I need this too. I have 15 or more docs open at the same time. I need them a specific order for updates and proofreading to align with other documentation I'm using. Trying to align them "manually" by dragging them is unnecessarily cumbersome and generally ineffective. Hoping this could be a simple fix. Even being able to drag and drop them in the overflow menu that shows the entire list of open documents would be fabulous.

  • Elaine G commented  ·   ·  Report

    I whole heartedly agree with the OP.

    Unless you drag the tab in a PERFECTLY STRAIGHT LINE, it is not possible to simply drag and drop a tab into a new position. If you stray even the slightest, but end up with the cursor in the correct position, the tab automatically becomes the last tab. The same happens when trying to add a tab from another window.

    And you have to try again. The easiest way to reduce the likelihood of this happening is to move the tab just one space at a time.

    It's a speed bump, it happens multiple times a day, and it's maddening. Please look into a solution. Thx.

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