This happens to me all the time: I type some text, then look at some other page. If I want to skip back to the page with that text on it, it’s easy: Choose Layout > Go Page (or press command/ctrl-page up). That works just like the “Back” button in a web browser, jumping back to the previous page I was on.
But the real problem is when I go to about 15 other pages, looking here and there for something… and then I want to go back to where that text was.
MS Word has a cool “place the cursor back where I was a moment ago” feature, but InDesign doesn’t. (Please, Adobe! It’d be so helpful to have such a shortcut!) So here’s my workaround. It’s complex. Ready? Press Command/Ctrl-Z. Yup, just undo it. That jumps right back to where the text cursor was. Then press Command-Shift-Z/Ctrl-Shift-Z to redo the change you made, putting you right back to where you were before you started skipping from page to page.
It doesn’t match the zoom magnification, but that’s not a big deal — the important thing is that the cursor is (more or less) in the right place.
Of course, this also works when moving objects around. For example, you move an object, then skip around the document and don’t remember what page that object was on. Undo/Redo puts you right back, ready to go.
This article was last modified on December 19, 2021
This article was first published on February 5, 2009
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