[ID-4253441]"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in InDesign 20.0
"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in Indesign 20.0.
Why in the world would they do this??? Yet another meaningless update to hinder production.
Not OS related, as I have not updated my OS since updating to Indesign 20.
Mac Sonoma 14.7
3.6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9
AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB

Hi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. It is currently under investigation.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Eddie Deighton commented
WHY IS THIS RECONFIGURED LAYOUT PROBLEM STILL A THING? We’ve had at least 2 updates since this issue was raised and posted so why hasn’t it been resolved? Stop messing around with AI rubbish and sort the basics out. Absolutely appalling.
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Beth commented
Any reason why the buttons are not consistently positioned? It would really help if they were as us designers do a huge amount of command+tabbing between creative suite applications. Thank you :)
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Stephen commented
This is bonkers. It's taking so long my muscle memory is going to be retrained by the time they (hopefully!) switch it back and the confusion will continue!
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Larry commented
This decision really needs to be reversed. It's the same careless, dangerous, and plain bad UX that Apple has implemented with their dialog boxes. Putting the two most destructive operations right next to each other where you can accidentally click on the wrong choice and make irretrievable data loss. The proper way was in earlier versions of Mac OS and Adobe apps with the horizontal layout, and "Don't Save" far off to the left separate from Cancel and Save.
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troyjack commented
Still not fixed on 20.1 update SMH.
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Stephen commented
The differences between the 'Save Changes' dialog boxes for the Big Four (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) are mind-boggling. Different appearances, different text, different button locations -- why is that not standardised? And even where they look similar, the text is different! Eg, why is Acrobat the only one that starts with "Do you want to..."
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Ryan Terry commented
The Senior Lead Software Engineer of InDesign calling his own decision to change something for the objective worse an "issue" that they're investigating is very funny, and that they can't even fix this within a month is positively hilarious.
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Ben Angus commented
Can we swap 'Don't Save' and 'Cancel' back the way they were in all Adobe apps please. I'm not sure why this change was made, it doesn't seem to make any sense to have swapped these and it's driving me and everyone in my workplace absolutely mental. It has been the other way round for decades, it's ingrained in every single one us since we were birthed into the adobe suite. Please for the love of god change it back. Regards, Everyone everywhere in the Adobe universe.
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Eddie Deighton commented
25 years of muscle memory - why would you even consider changing this? Is it Adobe’s mission to completely hinder our workflow?
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troyjack commented
New update today, still not fixed. Disappointing.
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Claudio Marconato commented
At least 36 people lost time and money to write down this post, comment and vote it. You, Adobe, must refund people for all time and money they waste for your distractions or lack of coordination between developers. This is not a bug, this is between distractions and incapacity.
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Craig commented
There was no good reason to switch this. The potential to lose hours of work due to muscle memory trained after YEARS of using the product does not outweigh any possible benefit. It's like literally punishing your most loyal, longtime users.
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Leo commented
@Anders: I can't reproduce this; Cmd-S and Cmd-D work as expected for me in the InDesign 2025 dialog.
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Anders commented
IMPORTANT about Command + S.
Command + S has always been the shortcut to SAVE in MacOS.
In this dialog window Command S => DO NOT SAVE.
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Magnus Gaarde commented
Thanks for confirming that these buttons are indeed swapped. I thought it was me going mad.
Please, Adobe put the buttons back. This change makes absolutely no sense. -
Karl commented
FIX IT.
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Tomina Funthomason commented
Do something about it!!! Swap it back! This is really critical problem for many of us! Thank you.
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Claudio Marconato commented
Adobe, please, come back ASAP to previous (as all other softwares) positions.
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Laurie Ruhlin commented
This must be changed. Now I always have to really think and read the dialog.
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Alan Burnitt commented
I really hope this was an oversight or a general ***** up as I couldn't imagine the thought process behind swapping these. Its not only different from previous iterations, but also different from the current other Adobe programs. Please swap these back. I haven't accidentally clicked "Don't Save" yet, but it's coming.