Guides won't delete!

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July 24, 2013
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Hi, I know this sounds daft but i can't clear individual guides by simply dragging them into the ruler and they arent locked! is this a known issue?

Andy

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Correct answer Mohanaraj

Hi,

Seems that the guide is not getting deleted by drag-drop on to the ruler area if the scroll bar is not at its top/left most position. To workaround this problem, please zoom out to a level where the scroll bars disappear to delete a specific guide by drag drop onto the ruler area.

Hope that helps.

Thansk!
Mohan

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casamia743

New Participant

There are two type of guide in indesign.

First one is, as generally used, just GUIDE. This guide is created in the Layout > Create guides, and so on....

Second one is, I think this may be the main reason of many questions which saying "cann't delete guide!", DOCUMENT COLUMN GUIDE. This guide is created when you first initialize your document or you can setup this in the Layout > margin and columns. The minimum value is 1, because the whole page itself is a column.

So, when you struck in problem with guides, please check the document column guide number. If you wanna make your page clear, setup that value as 1.

JFYI, when you go to the View > Grid & Guides, there are two guide view options. "Lock guides" and "Lock column guides" As I already mentioned, this lock options is for the each type of guide.

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beelia

Participating Frequently

I have the same problem. Layer is not locked, not on a master page. Using Lynda.com instructions to delete guide, and it does not delete.

Clear guides does work, but what if I don't want to delete them all?

This must be a bug. Adobe, please fix.

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

The technique is easier than Mohan was describing. No need to drag to the ruler. Click and drag on a guide and move the cursor outside of the pasteboard area. That can be into the rulers, into the timeline, really anywhere outside of that part of the window. You don't have to drag vertical guides left and right, or horizontal guides up and down. For example, to delete a vertical guide you can click and drag on it just above the timeline area (if the timeline is at the bottom), and drag down into the timeline. The guide will go away. This works even if the ruler isn't showing.

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janeBerlin

New Participant

I didn't see anyone mention 'master pages' but I hunted around trying to solve my "guide won't delete" issue until I realized the guide was on my master page and it@ had to be deleted there.

JessicaFMoore

Inspiring

Argh!! It's 2015 and I'm having the same problem!! Multiple guides in my file, and all deleted just fine except two, which won't delete at all. I tried every suggestion in this forum? Has anyone gotten an answer to this??

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