can't remove a guide in InDesign

[milansdesign]

Hi!

I have a file from which I cannot remove guides. I can move it but I can't remove it.

I know of 2 types of guides: Spread guide and Page guide. But the Spread guide exceeds the spread margin and the Page guide ends at the edge of the page. It ends at the margins.

What kind of guide is it and how can I remove it?

[Jumpenjax]

Are you sure it is a guideline? Is it possibly a text box or just a box? Can you just click on it and delete it?

[milansdesign]

I can't selet it, but can move. I don't know what is it but is not a box, or text box, or stroke, or any object. I hide all layes and has not disappeared. When I "Hide Guides", then it disappears. That's why I think it's a guide.

Thank you!

[Diane Burns]

Try Layout menu > Create Guides, then click "Remove Existing Ruler Guides." 

If it's a ruler guide, this should remove it. 

Not sure why you can't select it, regardless of what it is, unless it's on a locked layer?

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

That is an inadvertently unlocked Column Guide. Normally the column guides are locked, but if you unlock them you can move them. Just move it back and relock it.

You can also just change the number of columns from Custom back to 1.

~Barb

[milansdesign]

Thank you very much!

I receive the file from client and this Column Guide are it was very close to the right margins but not over it and it complicate me when I wanted to snap object at the edges by resize.

[milansdesign]

I learned something else.

Thank you! 🙂

[Barb Binder]

We are always happy to help, @milansdesign.

~Barb