Selecting text is offset slightly so you select the wrong characters
Selecting text is sometimes really difficult as where you click is slightly off from what InDesign thinks you're clicking on. That means that when you highlight a word, it often misses the first character that you're trying to select. You then have to move the cursor slightly over another character for it to highlight it.
It's really frustrating as it doesn't seem to happen in all documents. The ones I'm having issues with at the moment use the customer's own font but I've been using that same font for about 5 years with no issues until now.
I'm using InDesign 14.0.2 and Mac OS 10.14.5
Steve Edwards
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Tom Van Damme
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I thought this would have been solved with the new updates, but no such luck :)
Apparently the selection works as expected when selecting text from left to right: simply starting inside a character selects that character when you move to the right, but it does NOT include said character when moving to the left. This used to be consistent in both directions.
I have added a screen recording to show the behaviour.
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Tom Van Damme
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I'm noticing the same thing. I cannot recall having this issue before but only recently I noticed that when highlighting text you really have to strike over the ENTIRE character in order to highlight it.
It used to be more forgiving: when you started at about 80% of a character it would still add that character to the selected text.
Using Indesign 15.0.2 - MacOS 10.15.4
