Unable to select multiple objects
Yesterday InDesign 21.0 was forced upon me and it is nothing but issues.
This very annoying issue is that I can't select multiple objects. I click one, I hold shift to select another one - and it deselects the first one. I have tried every possible combination of keys, and multiple restarts. I can only select multiple objects by dragging across them, which does not work for all layouts, or by using CMD-A.
Elvstigen
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Hi,
As confirmed by the user, the issue is resolved with the latest InDesign 2026(v21.0.0.192).
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Sam Rodriguez commented
This is happening to me as well in version 21.4 (Mac OS 26.5.1). The issue appears when at least ONE of the multiple objects selected is an image and you attempt to drag them all using an image object. If you select multiple objects and none of them are images, then dragging multiple objects behavior works as expected. If you select multiple objects including images and you use a non-image object to drag them, then it works as expected. BUT, if one of the objects is an image and you drag them all using the image to drag them, then ONLY the image is dragged and the other objects are unselected and ignored. This is a very annoying bug that just popped up in this new release.
Doing more testing, if you delete the image in a container leaving just the frame that once contained the image and try dragging multiple objects using that empty image container, the dragging works fine. So the issue has something to do with linked and embedded images. -
VLADIMIR MIROSHNIKOV commented
I am experiencing the same under 21.4 x64
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David Cuesta
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I just had the same issue, running the latest version of indesign on macbook pro M1 running sonoma. Its a pain.