This would be a major improvement of tables in InDesign that would be the envy of any other program and I think it is possible for InDesign to do it.

       This feature would automatically make a table go to its text box width with even spacing between each column of text.:

       This is how it would be done with a new feature called something like 'Column Space':

(1) You would make sure the table is within a text box to the width you want the table to go to.
(2) You would then adjust the columns of text within the table to the widths you want them (as you normally would) but without using any cell indents to the left or right of each text column. (So the text column is exactly to the width of the longest line you have decided on in each column.)
(3) Between each column of text you would add this new feature column, which I've called 'Column Space'*, and this would put even spacing between each text column and this would space the table out to the text box width.

*This 'Column Space' would act like a word space in justified text, i.e. by adding a Column Space between each column of the table these special columns would behave like a word space – the columns of text would be spaced out evenly to the text box width (just as words are in justified text).

This would resolve the fiddly, trial and error issue of having to adjust table column widths to make the table go to the width you want it. This would automatically sort out the spacing between table columns automatically and accurately.

If, like me, you are working on a book with that might have 75 large tables within it, this would be a huge time saver.

I use INDD for proposals that include covers and tabs. Right now, it's pretty cumbersome to get the cover and tabs to not be included in the page count. Currently, you have to restart the number at a specific interval based on where the tabs are at and change your cover and tabs pages to include a Section Prefix as to not duplicate page numbers, so it's a little tedious. So my first three pages are called A1 A2 and A3...then 1 2...then B3 (for tab 1)...then 3 4 5 etc. Can we just have a "check box" under Numbering & Section Options that says "don't include in page count"? That would be amazing!

Would like the find/replace font also store/show the actual filename for the font, not just the display version: I have recently received a new (Windows) computer at work, it has has some issues, and I didn't copy over all of the installed fonts on the previous computer, as I probably did not need many of them anymore. I work for a printing company that does updates and new set ups, so use a lot of fonts from a lot of sources. It is a real time user to find the correct font file for many jobs, given Windows' naming conventions for fonts. If InDesign, and other apps that set type, could store the actual filename of the fonts used in the file, as well as it's display name, then finding the font would be more certain and quick. Currently the filename only shows up if the font is already installed.

Please please please consider making a feature where you can extract pages/spreads in an InDesign document as a separate InDesign file. I work in Proposals for a Civil Engineering firm and our proposals are generally 100+ pages with a lot of resumes and project pages. After each proposal is complete we have to go in and save every resume in each person's resume folder and every project page in its respective folder. It takes such a long time to create a new indesign document for each resume and project and copy/paste it over and then save in a folder. It would be so nice to select the pages you want, right click, and be able to save the selected pages as an indesign file into a folder. PLEASE!! Thank you :)

I want the ability to open an Adobe PDF in Adobe InDesign. The ability to have a pdf file that I can right click and go to Open With -> Adobe InDesign would save so much time at my job in the print industry. It takes forever to take 1,500 pages of a PDF document and individually place them in an InDesign file just so I can use a master page to overlay a bad logo that a client used. If they could just automatically open just as though I did the whole document by hand it would be a dream.

Managing multiple tabs in InDesign is an abomination. Firstly, the tolerance between reshuffling tabs and pulling a tab out to a separate window is far too small. Try doing this on a 4K screen, move your mouse a couple of millimetres up or down and all of a sudden your tab is now it's own window. Worse still is that when you pull it back into the tabs, it goes right to the back.

This leads me to my second issue. The lack of any way to reshuffle tabs that have multiple tabs in between. There are two ways to do this and they are both tedious at best. Firstly is to move a tab four or five documents ahead. Then select a document four or five tabs ahead of that, then re-select the document you are moving and move it again. Repeat a bunch of times until you've moved the tab to where you need it and hope that you don't accidentally pull it out into its own window, because you have to start again. Second method is to open every single tab in between the two documents you're trying to bring together and open them out to a window, then drag back into tabs (this sends that tab to the back).

The InDesign devs should look at how After Effects handles tabs.

When relinking a file, ID is able to check and relink all other links in a folder. However, I regularly have to use the relink feature to replace .tif dummies with finalized .psd files. The problem is that relink includes the extension of files in the name, so a tickable option to tell ID to change extension according to the first file you click so it then relinks all files with same name but the desired extension instead would save a lot of time.

(Unrelated, but having a corner to drag the typing field when posting ideas would be nice. :))

After the last update(2020) of InDesign, i started creating a book file. When I loaded the files in the book file, all files had to manually be saved again in the new version of InDesign. When creating a book of more than 100 files, it is verry time consuming. To create alle the books(multiple each month whit files that are already created), i have more than 1000 files wich have to be updated to the latest file. To do this i have found a script wich make this less time consuming, but it is still a lot of work. I dont want to do this at every large InDesign update.

I have asked how to do this on the Adobe forum, there i found out that there is no future for this in InDesign itself, but someone has written a script to do this. The question and answers can be found here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/InDesign/Multiple-files-to-be-saved-manually-in-a-book/td-p/10713906

It is possible to create an option to automattically update each file that is being opened or place in a book file? Maybe create an option wich you can select when you want to. When this is possible I do not have to reserve time to update everything, but I can update the files automatically when used.

Thanks in advanced,

Jasper Scheffers.