Hi Julianne, we too are struggling with drop down items not sticking. I am trying to find a better solution. You can use the arrow keys to make a selection within the drop down menu, but this is not a great work around, especially when you have a ton of saved greps to choose from. Does anybody have an answer for this.

Tried clearing prefs.

Thanks
Liseann

Since upgrading to 2017, I’ve noticed one predominant glitch and I’m curious if anyone else has experienced this. For no apparent reason, menus within InDesign will stop responding to my drop-down menu selection. For instance, I try to use the “Multiple Returns to Single Returns” GREP command in the Find/Change dialog box — but the drop-down will not “stay” selected on my selection. Or I try to change the ruler units in the Preferences box: same thing, the drop-down menu will not accept the change from picas to inches.

I hope I’m describing this accurately enough to get some feedback. The only thing that “fixes” it and returns all menu drop-downs to normal functioning is a restart of the program. I don’t have to trash preferences.