Guides do not get deleted when they should

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 7, 2022
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I'm trying to change my guides on a spread.

Going to Layout > Create Guides, then setting some up and checking the Remove Existing Ruler Guides has no effect.

Same thing for going to View > Grids & Guides > Delete All Guides on Spread. No effect at all.

I'm using InDesign 18.0 (2023).

What can I do?

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Just a guess, since I'm not seeing what your page looks like, you might be trying to remove margin and column guides that are part of the page setup. The remove guides command you are using only works on guides you've created separately from those main margin and column guides.

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InélsòreAuthor

Inspiring

Nope!

Here's what I've done, on a normal page with 9x12in size, a margin of 0.5in.

I created a 12 columns 12 rows grid with 0in gutter based on margins.

Realising this was not what I wanted to do, I repeated the process but this time checked based on page and also checked "remove existing guides".

This resulted in two sets of guides being present instead of the page-based ones removing the margin-based ones.

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

Are the guides on a locked layer?

Jens Trost

Inspiring

Hi there,
the guides are probably on a parent spread.
Go to the pages panel and click through the parent pages on the top half and check for the guides there.
Also make sure your layers in the layers panel are not locked.
If you are on a parent page and have the layer(s) unlocked the menu actions should work.