Drag-duplicating an object with Alt key pressed does not duplicate, if moving on a separate page
If I try to duplicate an object to another page, across the pasteboard border, by holding the Alt key and dragging with mouse, the object only moves there. If I want to duplicate an object to another page, I have to first duplicate it on the same page and then move it to another page.
However, as that is unintuitive, I still constantly try to duplicate an object across the page border, leading me to undo back after I find out the object didn't actually duplicate, but instead I have moved the original object (and oftentimes edited it a lot already).
As I find no particular reason why the duplicate shouldn't work across two pages, I believe this is a bug, or at least an oversight.
Issue is still seen in 'Immediate' Live Screen Drawing mode, when pressing alt in between the drag while copying to another spread
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Stephanie Nessen commented
Alt+Shift was working fine before the upgrade, now (after v 15.0 upgrade) this feature only works intermittently. Not a happy camper right now.
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Anonymous commented
I am using Indesign 15.0 and my alt drag isn't working. I'm on a mac. Any ideas, it's driving me nuts.
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David Cuesta commented
Seems like this issue is back in latest update of Indesign 2020
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Di commented
Holding ALT + dragging an object in InDesign 15.0 on MacOs Mojave 10.14.6 still not working! Why?
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Gary commented
I updated to InDesign 2020 (v15.0) and the shift+option drag to duplicate is now not working.
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Anonymous commented
InDesign CC 2020 (15.0 Mainline CL #1059441) still can't achieve this task properly. The page I try to duplicate with the alt key only moves to the place where I release my mouse click. I am downloading the latest build (13 days ago...) to check any changes on this.
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Milan commented
Bastian S. you are right. I meant SPREADS... It works fine between pages.
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Bastian S. commented
I take that back.. it also does not work for me when the pages are on a different spread.
So from left to right page works great - from one spread to another does not.
Screen recording attached.
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Bastian S. commented
Tested on: Indesign 14.0.2 on macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
Working fine - tried copying / dragging several objects and groups between pages. -
Milan commented
Even the cursor changes to "normal" drag, as if this option was disabled. InDesign version 14.0.2 macOS Mojave 10.14.5
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Lillian Cutts commented
The same thing is happening to me with Adobe illustrator 2019. Has this been resolved?
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Anonymous commented
I can't drag objects across a document or duplicate using hit keys. What's going on in Windows 10
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Anonymous commented
Found a solution: https://forums.adobe.com/message/7411472#7411472
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MvB commented
Same with me. Since last update this does not work anymore like A LOT of key strokes. Scaling is also not working anymore with SHIFt key.
PLEASE FIX!!!
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Paulo Pascua commented
Please disregard my previous post. A simple computer restart fixed the issue. Thanks
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Paulo Pascua commented
This problem started today. I'm not able to update my iMac 1TB Fusion drive because the high Sierra update crashed my computer. I got it fixed a couple months ago, but I don't want to try and update it again fearing it might crash again. I've re installed Indesign and the problem still persists.
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Carla commented
I'm just experiencing this problem!! I've try to shut my computer off and on, to reset the InDesign settings and nothing ... nothing!! I'm almost dying here
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Elmo Allén commented
True, it works if I remember to press the Alt first and then drag. It's hard to remember, though, that when duplicating across pages that you must first press Alt, and then drag.
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Elmo Allén commented
Forgot to add: InDesign CC 13.1 on Windows 10 version 1709. But this feature has existed for many, many years already.
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Matt commented
Only happens in InDesign, clean install on clean install of MacOS - and appears fixed after applying MacOS 10.13.1 update... Will report back if it recurs.