Guides won't delete!

[panvulcon]

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

[davidgaylord]

The guides are locked. Right click on one, click unlock guides, then you can move or delete them.

[jonathanr50107591]

It's the layer options. If you right click on the layer the guide is on, and click layer options, there should be a checkbox that says lock guides. Uncheck and you are good to go.

[cys13433603]

It was driving me batty, as well.  I figured out the my problem was simply that the guides (those horizontal blue lines) were in the Master page and, once I removed them from those masters, they all went away. 

[SD Chandler]

In 2018, there's a new problem with deleting guides after updating to InDesign CC 13.0 (Mac). Apparently when opening a document created in a previous version of InDesign, unwanted column guides appeared on every Master Page in my document (they appeared as dark purple lines on top of my hot pink margin lines — but only on top of the vertical margin lines). These column guides are not on a layer, they are not locked, and they cannot be deleted — though they can be moved (sideways only). My work-around is to move them to the outermost edge of either side of the page (the gutter, if you have a spread). Af first it would not let me move more than one guide to the same edge — the second guide would be forced to sit next to the one that was put there first, but I kept trying and it finally let me put them on top of each other. The unwanted column guides are not actually deleted — they are still there and selectable — just not visible. This is a stupid problem that should not exist.

[ClayUUID]

You're posting in the Animate CC forum, not the InDesign forum.

[hoodroki]

your guides are locked. thats why you cant delete them.

(View>Guides>Unlock Guides)

[philipb93529659]

Maybe your guide line is inside a clip group. Double click the object that has that guide line you want to delete. You can delete it in the clip group.

[natalia9777919]

Yes! This sounds like the problem I was having in Illustrator. If I tried to do View > Guides > Unlock Guides to select the individual ones I wanted to delete, I still wasn't even able to select them, despite the fact that I was able to select and delete other guides. Then I figured out that they had somehow gotten "grouped" with some objects on my artboard, so I clicked on that group and selected View > Guides > Release Guides. This made those guides I couldn't select before disappear without affecting my other guides.

[Robbie29216713inxo]

View, Girds and Guides, uncheck lock guides