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Joachim_L

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2 hours ago, Seizmic said:

some light gray boxes that appeared behind the text boxes that I can't seem to find to get rid of.

Could you upload the IDML? Or perhaps the text frame has a fill. Check this in the Text Frame panel.

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Old Bruce

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It is a Decoration on the Paragraph Header Paragraph Style. There is a grey stroke applied to the Bottom Line decoration.

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R C-R

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Is it possible you are talking about the Column Guides that can be switched off in View > Show Column Guides? 

In the Guides Manager (also available in the View menu) it looks like the color for the column guides is set to black, which I guess by design is not fully opaque, so these guides look grey.

Anyway, if you untick Show column guides do you get what you want?

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Old Bruce

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That could be a pinned item. Could be a decoration. Could be something else.

Would need to see the document, just make a simple one page file with that text frame & text in it and post it here.

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Old Bruce

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9 minutes ago, SteveKimpton said:

Here's the one page file with offending grey box

You have a Paragraph style called Box applied to the paragraph at the very end, it is empty of any characters. Not sure how you managed to apply it.

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walt.farrell

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40 minutes ago, SteveKimpton said:

I have never deliberately named a paragraph style so I have no idea why it should be called Box.  

It's one of the standard pre-defined text styles the application provides.

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Seizmic

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On 12/23/2021 at 3:07 PM, Old Bruce said:

It is a Decoration on the Paragraph Header Paragraph Style. There is a grey stroke applied to the Bottom Line decoration.

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nope. wasn't related to the text box at all. was baked into the page somehow. unelectable on the master page.

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On 12/23/2021 at 6:00 PM, R C-R said:

Is it possible you are talking about the Column Guides that can be switched off in View > Show Column Guides? 

In the Guides Manager (also available in the View menu) it looks like the color for the column guides is set to black, which I guess by design is not fully opaque, so these guides look grey.

Anyway, if you untick Show column guides do you get what you want?

Interesting. I'll check.

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Old Bruce

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13 hours ago, Seizmic said:

nope. wasn't related to the text box at all. was baked into the page somehow. unelectable on the master page.

Do you mean the Column Guides? See if View > Show Column Guides is checked/turned on.

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On 12/23/2021 at 6:00 PM, R C-R said:

Is it possible you are talking about the Column Guides that can be switched off in View > Show Column Guides? 

In the Guides Manager (also available in the View menu) it looks like the color for the column guides is set to black, which I guess by design is not fully opaque, so these guides look grey.

Anyway, if you untick Show column guides do you get what you want?

Sorry - missed your post somehow :/

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