Blue Highlights that are not style overrides!? Cannot figure this out.

[Jarred Cornette]

So I believe I accidentally hit some key or shortcut and now a seemingly random selection of my document is highlighted in light cyan blue.  It is not local style overrides, as I have already tried that.  When I create new text there is no blue, even with a style applied.  Furthermore, if I clear the style on a highlighted selection, it becomes unhighlighted, but if i reapply a style it goes blue again.  Everything is fine in preview mode, but i can't productively work in only preview mode.  Thanks. Not sure what view or text option is running here.  Thanks

[Ian Blogs]

Is it this that is explained in Indesign secrets?

https://indesignsecrets.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue.php

[Jarred Cornette]

Unfortunately no.  I have already troubleshot that isuse.

Shared album - Jarred Cornette - Google Photos

This is what I'm looking at.  The color is also more mellow than the override alert which leads me to believe it is definitely something else.

[Steve Werner]

Could you post the file (or part of it) so we could try to figure it out?

[Derek Cross]

If it’s not the Styles over-ride indicator (which would disappear if you changed to Preview mode), it might be you inadvertently applied some Paragraph Shading:  InDesign Paragraph Shading

If not, try resetting your InDesign preferences.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted solution]

Could you have the Custom Tracking/Kerning preference turned on:

[lauries66233335]

Thank you IDEAS-Training! I had this same problem. It was the custom tracking highlight. Maybe Jarred Cornette had the same problem?

[Laubender]

lauries66233335  wrote

… Maybe Jarred Cornette had the same problem?

Hi, I'd bet it is the same.

But I don't think it's a "problem" 🙂

If I'm looking at the screen Jarred linked to in answer #2 I see more a shade of green instead of blue ( but maybe that's only me? ).

Here a screen shot from my German InDesign CC 2018 with Custom Tracking/Kerning:

Regards,
Uwe

[lauries66233335]

Maybe you are right. In my situation I opened an old Indd file and custom tracking was highlighted. I hadn't used it for a few years and forgot about the option. I'm glad I found a quick answer in this forum.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The custom tracking indicator is green, but without actually seeing the file, I was guessing. The only time I see a light cyan is with style overrides. (Although, it is more of a full strength cyan, not really "light".)

I would really need to see the file. The OP hasn't posted for a while, so we don't know if the problem is resolved or not; and if so, what the solution was.

[tommym52910261]

Thank you Ideas Training. Thats it! It was driving me bonkers too...

Just switch off 'Custom Tracking/Kerning' in Indesign Preferences > Type > Composition

[Kristen5FA1]

Thank you! This was a huge help!