Let me turn off the lengthen/shorten AI menu options
InDesign 2026 290d2bf.
While in an empty cell of a table's header row, I right-clicked and accidentally selected "Lengthen". While your useless AI was doing whatever it was trying to do, I could not stop it. I let the progress indicator finish, let it set for a minute after than, and finally had to force-quit InDesign.
I am 99% certain I will never use the shorten or lengthen features found there, so please let me just get rid of them.
Tim Murray
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Tim Murray
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I'm not sure what you want me to do. You sent me an email October 26th asking if I could share a video.
My answer had a video. I could determine more if your website had a date by next to my answer, but nooooo.
Anyway, I created a fresh bug: ID-4290828. It, too, has a video, but it is different than the first and is a little better.
You also asked for my system info. Because your selections for operating system and such are always out of date, I manually put in my operating system and InDesign version.
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Tim Murray
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Today I completely formatted my Mac and reinstalled. The Lengthen . . . works? See the video at https://app.screencast.com/OURpzNZudzXlh
It trashed my table, looked at what was above it, and wrote about it.
Yeah, like I would need that. Anyway, I do want to point out that even after the fresh 100% install, the first time I did this "Lengthen" routine, InDesign crashed. I rebooted, ran it again, and the next time everything on the page disappeared. All of it, and no, it was not on the next page.
The third time -- and I made a movie of it -- it did what you see here. Why it blew away my table, I really don't know.There was a very good chance, I will never, ever, use this. The reason why there should be a way to remove this menu item is because I could accidentally select it, and from what I can see here, it might wipe out my entire document.