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  1. When Find/Change Dialog Box is open, arrow keys move entire text box instead of cursor

    1. Indesign 16.3.2 on macOs Mojave
    2. When i find a word using find/change it gets highlighted. I try to add a punctuation mark after that word and tab the right arrow key.
    3. Arrow key should just move the cursor in text box, next to the highlighted text.
    4. It moves entire text box as if the text box is selected.
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  2. Fit frame to content creates duplicate text boxes

    Indesign 16.4 on Mac 10.15.3
    Selecting multiple text boxes and hitting "fit frame to content" causes all text boxes to duplicate.

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  3. Text/table duplicated after outline creation

    Indesign is duplicating text box and table box after converting to outlines. Also, these duplicate text boxes are not converted to outlines and are still editable. See attached image.

    Font used: URW Din.

    Computer config:
    Windows 10 Pro 21H1 - 19043.1165
    Indesign Version: 16.3 x64
    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz
    Memory: 32 GB

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  4. BUG WITH FOOTNOTES

    I though that the new version of Indesign will have this fix but, no. See my screenshot, the text is overlapping my footnote. This comes randomly in my 12 books. To get ride of this, I have to enlarge my textbox and after, reduce it like it was normally. It's very frustrating because when I get the Okay of my client and then made the final PDF, it can happening. So, I have to check all my PDFs very carefully to see if nothing wrong.

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  5. text wrap violates indented text next to it

    [InDesign 16.2.1 x63/Windows 10 Enterprise ]
    When text with bullets sits next to a (separate) text frame that has a wrap applied, the text after the bullet doesn't align correctly.
    I tried to upload a file (both by dragging or clicking) and neither option allows me to attach the file. "The following file type [filename.indd] is not supported."
    An earlier bug report for the same problem had a response indicating that the issue has been fixed. It has not been fixed.
    Fortunately, you can move the tab marker on the affected lines to override the bug, but that's really not…

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  6. Simple cursor insertion point inaccurate in text

    I hover the cursor over the space (between two letters, for example) but the actual insertion point is a letter off, to the left of the intended location.

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  7. Primary Text Frame widget not showing

    InDesign v16.3.2 on macOS 10.15.7 the widget to convert a Text Frame on a Master Page to a Primary Text Flow is missing! Please fix!

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  8. Quranic annotation signs not working in Indesign

    Hi. Standard Pakistani Quranic text is not rendered properly in Indesign because it is unable to handle a Unicode block correctly (see attachments)

    Version of Adobe InDesign:
    2021 16.3.2

    Steps to reproduce the issues:
    To recreate this problem, download the font 'PakType Naskh Basic' from link below:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype/files/latest/download

    For Quranic text sample, use text from link below:
    https://svn.code.sf.net/p/paktype/code/Fonts/Deployment/Sura-Fatiha.html

    I hope this bug is fixed as soon as possible because we Pakistanis need to compose standardized Quran in Indesign. Thank you.

    5 votes

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  9. F/R (text or grep) doesn't find all matches

    Hebrew text -- copy first occurrence of a letter/nikkud combo (for example וְֿ)

    Find only finds SOME of them (It DOESN"T find the occurrence that I copied)

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  10. footnotes bug

    How do I get footnote #1 in my screenshot to show up with footnotes #2 and #3 at the bottom of the page. For the life of me, I cannot find a setting that makes this possible. Thank you in advance.

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  11. footnotes bug

    How do I get footnote #1 in my screenshot to show up with footnotes #2 and #3 at the bottom of the page. For the life of me, I cannot find a setting that makes this possible. Thank you in advance.

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  12. footnotes show up at the bottom of text box rather than bottom of page when "span footnotes" is selected

    How do I get footnote #1 in my screenshot to show up with footnotes #2 and #3 at the bottom of the page. For the life of me, I cannot find a setting that makes this possible. Thank you in advance.

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  13. footnotes show up at the bottom of text box rather than bottom of page when "span footnotes" is selected

    How do I get footnote #1 in my screenshot to show up with footnotes #2 and #3 at the bottom of the page. For the life of me, I cannot find a setting that makes this possible. Thank you in advance.

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  14. footnotes show up at the bottom of text box rather than bottom of page when "span footnotes" is selected

    How do I get footnote #1 in my screenshot to show up with footnotes #2 and #3 at the bottom of the page. For the life of me, I cannot find a setting that makes this possible. Thank you in advance.

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  15. Koreans have to press the spacebar twice when using InDesign

    When typing Korean in InDesign, you need to press the spacebar twice.If you've ever used InDesign in Korean, you'll find this kind of work is very annoying. This issue did not appear in CS6 and earlier versions of CC. So, for Koreans who use InDesign, the InDesign CC version is a disaster.

    This problem cannot be solved by using any option in InDesign, and Koreans are using unverified sub software to solve this problem. And many Koreans are wondering why InDesign is a step backwards from the previous version and doesn't solve even these basic problems.

    It seems it's been…

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  16. missing characters in dialog box

    missing characters in dialog box - InDesign.
    Hello All,
    have someone problem with letters in dialog box like me?
    I absolutely have no idea what to do and how to fix it. Can you someone help me?

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  17. Hyperlink shifts when replacing preceding characters

    If I replace a character in front of a hyperlink with multiple characters using Find/Change, the hyperlink shifts.

    (See screeshot: before and after)

    If only one character is replaced, no shift occurs. Tested with InDesign CS6, 2020 and 2021, MacOS.

    Here you can find a test document:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/hyperlink-shifts-when-replacing-preceding-characters/td-p/12143679

    4 votes

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  18. Phonetic tie and World-Ready Composer

    I'm seeing a behavior that I believe to be a bug. When I have a phonetic spelling with a tie character—for example, d͡ʒ"—using Indesign's paragraph composer, Indesign renders it as three characters—d + [tie] + ʒ. When I change to the world-ready paragraph composer, however, InDesign joins the tie to the character before it such that it can't be moved. I tried using a non-joiner between them, but InDesign just joins the tie to the non-joiner.

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  19. Spellcheck marking correctly spelled words as incorrect

    Using the most current version of CC ID
    I always have dynamic spelling turned on, and my dictionary is set to English USA, however, some files appear to have flagged correctly spelled words as incorrect, while other files appear to be normal. Screenshot examples, 'Dark' and 'Inspiration'.

    The issue seemed to come on randomly
    Saving as IDML does not fix the issue, nor does restarting the program

    3 votes

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  20. Margin Issues When Threading Tables

    InDesign 2021

    Background: I'm working with an InDesign Template file that was set up with two pages (not facing) and a lengthy table in a text box.

    Issue: Whenever I thread my text box with the table it contains, the table over stretches the margins on only the additional/threaded pages. It remains within the set margins on the original pages, and if you try to adjust the table on the overset pages, it shirks it on the original pages as well.

    Why is this? Why is the table changing size (width wise) on only the threaded pages, and how do…

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