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jimp87522270
Inspiring
February 16, 2025
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Text underline STYLE will not turn off

  • February 16, 2025
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Everytime I create a new document in InDesign, the underline text STYLE is always on. This is not a text RULE or a HYPERLINK - this is the text STYLE feature. I've tried every trick I can think of (opening a new doc and turning it off, closing the doc with it off, etc...) to turn it off but it will not turn off. If anyone can help me - I would be your bff forever.

 

And while we're on a related subject - is there anyway to set the program so it always opens a new document with the SAME settings all the time? I do a lot of different projects so when the defaults remain from the last document I used - it doesn't help at all with a new document - it actually creates more work for me because I have to turn all these things off again. This doesn't seem to exist in InDesign which is kind of strange since every other program of Adobe's seems to work that way.

 

Any help I can get would be great - thanks.

Correct answer jimp87522270

That's what I thought - but where can I find the underline STYLE with no document open so I can turn it off? It's not in the type preferences (at least not that I can tell).


Wait - I found it. Adobe buried it pretty deep...

Window  > Type &Tables > Character (flyout window options) > Underline

Shift-Command-U

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Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 16, 2025

You need to check what you've set in [Basic Paragraph Style]. 

 

And what do you mean by "same settings"? 

 

Panels, colors, styles? 

 

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jimp87522270Author
Inspiring
February 16, 2025

Thanks for the suggestion - hadn't thought of that. However underline is not on in the basic paragraph styles.

 

So far as "same settings" - I don't want things like font colors turned on or underlines or character styles, etc... I don't want to have to turn everything off when I shut down or when I start up. Think of it this way... every job I do is unique. So I don't want (basically) anything that I was using in the last document I created. Is there some way I can set up default  settings so I can click one box and everything reverts to my original start-up position? Don't know if you ever used Quark Xpress, but everytime I started up in that program - the defaults were automatically reset... Type was always black, boxes were always transparent, underlines (and all other styles) were always off... Etc...

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 16, 2025

You can set a lot of things "as defaults" - if you set them without any documents open. 

 

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