InDesign 13.1.1

I'm not sure what is going on but it's been happening for a while now. The only way I've been able to fix it has been to trash my preferences. Unfortunately even that doesn't last long, sometimes as short as a day.

I make a lot of paragraph and character shortcuts for my projects. Each has it's own set of fonts so although I use the same shortcuts each are attached to different fonts so when I jump into a project I need to be able to see the shortcuts in the panel to remember which to use. For the past few years they keep disappearing from my panel even through the are still attached to the style. I cant figure out what is causing this to happen and I'm getting tired of trashing prefs every day just to be able to see my own styles. I could switch over to a newer indesign version but that requires purchasing a new version/subscription of my font application which I don't think is necessary for this issue. At this time my Character style is working right and displaying the commands for the styles I have setup While paragraph has 13 shortcuts missing.

I am writing a book, with 18 chapters, each as a separate InDesign document, but all collected in a single Book.indb.

I just now returned to writing the book after a several months break. Wanting to update my structure, I did Layout > Table of Contents and clicked 'OK'. My Table of Contents disappeared!

After investigating, I realized that the 'Include Book Documents' option in that panel had become unchecked.

I checked that option, ran Table of Contents again, and found all my table of contents entries generated successfully. Yay!

HOWEVER, when I went to regenerate the Table of Contents, all my table of contents entries disappeared again! Examining that panel again showed that InDesign mysteriously unchecked that option, even though all my other options in that panel were unchange.

Please change that panel operation to remember the selection of the 'Include Book Documents' option.

Furthermore, I'd like that option to be included in the table of contents style, so that other tables of contents generated from that style have that option checked.

I have a text box with Drop Shadow Effect on the text itself. When I edit the text, the shadow does not change. I discovered quite accidentally that Undo (CTRL+Z) then Redo (CTRL+SHIFT+Z) fixes the issue.

However, when I change the angle of the object (text box), the text moves but the shadow remains in place. I cannot fix it even by adjusting the Effect angle options.

I have another issue where I have two separate text boxes on the same page with the exact same font and supposed font size, but the text is quite obviously not actually the same size.

I have ID 16.0.2 x64

So there is a bug with Indesign 2020 causing Spell Check to not function.

This issue can be replicated by taking a file that was previously created in Indesign 2019 and opening it and saving in with Indesign 2020. Spell checking that document will not work. No matter what settings you try it doesn't recognize any of the text.

If you open the original document before converting it or working on it with 2020 spell check works perfectly.

You can also take a page from the 2020 document that isn't spell checking, Open a new file in 2020, cut and paste everything from that page and then spell check works.

The document behind in the attached screen shot is the cut and pasted page, showing spell check working. Both pages are in Indesign 2020.

This is a huge problem as you can't open 2020 files in 2019 without converting them, running spell check in 2019 and one by one going to the 2020 document and fixing each word. This is a total nightmare!

Hi there,

I find the interface to adjust the strokes of a table's cell utterly confusing and frustrating to use. For instance, I want to adjust the top horizontal border between two rows. If I click on the top bar in your interface (see diagram), select a weight and colour, InDesign changes the stroke of the cell's vertical bars?!

If I select the bottom bar in the diagram, it still changes the vertical bars.

If I attempt to guess the reasoning of how the interface works, I then chose to select the vertical bars in the interface, InDesign still changes the vertical bars. I can't win.

The way I would expect this to work, is that if I select a border's line on the interface, when I click OK, those selected borders will be the only borders affected. I, therefore, can't understand what the purpose of the little grid in the top of the interface is. No matter which border's line I click, InDesign goes off and does its own thing, making it impossible to stylise the borders between the cells other than by pure luck.

I also don't understand what the centre vertical line is for, to me, it has no purpose. I can't seem to find documentation that adequately explains how to use this interface.

Can the UI be adjusted as I have described so that it is predictable in its effect? I appreciate that I may be confused and it all makes sense to someone, but it is so counter-intuitive that I've given trying to use/understand it. Surely a different technique/UI could be employed? It is easier to draw a table in PowerPoint, take a screenshot and then pace that into the document, which is very disappointing.

Kind regards
Mike Howell