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  1. Table of Contents running heads

    The Table of Contents should have an option to include just the running head portion of a paragraph, often in a bold style in my documents. Otherwise one has to manually strip out all the text that follows after a running head in the Table of Contents.

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  2. Paragraph Shading does not include Bullets / Numbering

    When Numbering is set for a Paragraph Style, Paragraph Shading (set to Text Width) it skips the numbers.

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  3. Have more Title Case formatting options

    Please add more Title Case formatting options like AMA AP APA, Bluebook, Chicago, MLA;etc.
    The default one people often have to edit, making words like "of", "and";etc not start with a capital letter

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  4. Have ALL Case Options under Paragraph Styles

    The text case options in the top menu should also be in paragraph styles, but instead we have limit options in paragraph styles.
    If I want Title Case for a paragraph style, there should be an option for it

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  5. Text Frame Autosize

    Hello,
    I tried to update a Text Frame Object style to have the Text Frame Autosize Height and Width but it squishes the text box as thin and possible. But it repects the existing text without squishing when it's only Autosize Width. I've noticed it before but it's an interesting bug. I did play around with the placement reference point but it all stayed squished. Not a major bug and it could be user error on my part if there is a setting elsewhere I need to click to get it to just resize the text box to fit the…

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  6. suggest an idea

    InDesign would benefit from an option that allows Apply Next Style (or a Paragraph Style setting) to automatically detect the final paragraph in a contiguous sequence and then apply an alternate “last paragraph” style. This is especially useful for designs where a repeated list uses a separator — for example, in a “Materials and Tools” box where each item has a rule below, but the final item should appear without the rule.

    At present, this requires manually applying a separate “last item” style to the final paragraph every time such a box is created. Giving InDesign the ability to recognise…

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  7. Writing in Arabic is not possible in the new version

    In the new version, it looks that writing in Arabic is not possible (the letters are not connected). Is this a bug? I tried to reinstall the new version and I already have my other Adobe products and account set to "English support Arabic" in languages

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    • Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when the issue occurred?
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    • Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide us with the document(s)/asset(s)? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)

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  8. Object Style defined to ignore Nonprinting changes Nonprinting status when applied to grouped frames

    Object Style defined to ignore Text Wrap & Other, when applied to a group of two frames where one has Nonprinting applied and the other does not, changes the Nonprinting status.

    Expected result: attributes in a category that is greyed out will be ignored, including Nonprinting.

    Actual result: Nonprinting turned off and frame prints and is visible in Overprint Preview.

    Pictured: The only intended purpose of the object style is to change position of frame. 1: The two frames are grouped. Large frame is live, small frame is note for designer. 2: The object style as defined. (By the way,…

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  9. Copy & pasting text into Indesign 20.5 from photoshop does not preserve styles text formatting DESPITE being checked i

    Copy & pasting text into Indesign 20.5 from Photoshop does not preserve styles in text formatting DESPITE being checked in ClipBoard Handling. Please make this work!

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  10. Bullets, Nested Style through End Nested Style Marker Causes Visible Shift

    Indesign 2025, Mac OS Ventura 13.7.2

    I've created a bullet style with a nested style that applies a character style to the type up through the first ":".

    I duplicated that style and changed the nested style setting to apply the same character style up through the first "end nested style marker".

    When I set a paragraph to the second style, the type shifts position. No other change was made to the second style other than changing the parameters of the nested style.

    I have no idea why this is happening. I cannot find a baseline shift or other setting…

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  11. When duplicating groups in Cell Styles, new styles are not appended with " copy", two styles with same namae

    When duplicating a group of cell styles, the resulting duplicate group's name is appended with " copy" but the style names contained within that group folder are not appended with " copy" and therefore you have duplicate style names in the Cell Styles. Additionally, when duplicating more than one style within a group, sometimes multiple "copy" styles are created, and other times, they are not, rather, the edit style dialog box appears...but on save, no style is saved into the group. Seems a bit kluge.

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  12. paragraph style override with archivo font

    I have setup a set of paragraph styles with different usage, but all of them can't be applied to my document. It keeps on giving me archivo black which is not the setting. During setup, all of them works well, but once applied to new textbox, regardless of what font that i chose, it will only give me archivo black font

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  13. Typing letter in Paragraph/Character style Shortcut field results in invisible shortcut being assigned

    How to reproduce this serious bug:

    -Double-click a Paragraph or Character Style to edit
    -Type a letter in the Shortcut field
    -Witness the field remanining blank
    -Click OK.

    Typing this letter in the document will now assign this style, while the letter remains invisible in the Shortcut field.

    A solution (provided the user will ever figure out what's going on) is to select all (Cmd-A) in the shortcut field and press delete (or maybe just delete is enough).

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  15. InDesign 20.2

    20.2 has broken my Ad Import plugin. The defaults that worked 2 weeks ago don't work.

    The label is not transparent. The box that the ad is in is transparent — it should be white. If I use the Object Style, the ad doesn't resize to fit content to the box.

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  16. InDesign 20.2

    20.2 has broken my Ad Import plugin. The defaults that worked 2 weeks ago don't work.

    The label is not transparent. The box that the ad is in is transparent — it should be white. If I use the Object Style, the ad doesn't resize to fit content to the box.

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  17. Character Style / redefine not working as expected

    When changing the font/color/style of a word which has a Character Style applied, the user expects a + to appear and a 'Redefine Style' context menu entry when right clicking the Character Style, just like when changing the appearance of text with a Paragraph Style applied.

    This does not always happen with Character Styles. If found that it does not work, when a Character Style is initially defined by first styling a selected text, and then added as a Character Style, with the + button in the Character Styles palet. In that case, the workflow mentioned does not work.

    Please…

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  18. Bug: copying text set to French between documents changes language

    Windows 11, Indesign 20.1
    Problem description: I have six documents, two in German, two in English, two in French. In all six is a paragraph with the same name, but the language setting is according to the document language. Means, the style is set to French (for spelling checker) in the french documents. When copying text by copy & paste from one french document to the others, the language setting of that text in the target document changes to German. This doesn't happen when copying english text from an english document to the other english document, same with the german…

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  19. reorder styles

    InDesign v20.1 - Windows 11 Pro

    If the Paragraph Styles palette is on the secondary monitor, then can not possible to reorder styles names with drag up or down in the list.

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  20. map Word lists to InDesign lists and paragraph styles

    As the InDesign help documentation notes (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/map-export-manage-styles.html), "Text styles with bullet or number lists may not be copied or exported to a different application with the bullets or numbers intact." The suggested workflow is extremely time-consuming for a long document where every paragraph is assigned to a hierarchical outline structure in Word, since each paragraph has to be manually assigned to the correct paragraph style and the Word outline numbering that was converted to text needs to be manually deleted. In addition, when placing the document, it creates a separate new "imported list" style from each Word list,…

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