How to create rectangle without stroke?

With no document open set the fill and stroke icons in the tool panel to "None" and then quit InDesign. When you relaunch this should now become the default.

Look again at your two frames. The first does not have the stroke on the inside. It is centered. The frames themselves are the same size; the first looks bigger because half of the stroke is outside of the frame.

Illustrator lets you measure either way. I can’t remember if InDesign does.

Regardless, do as Barb suggested. Note that she said “in that file”. To do it in all future files you need to have all documents closed.

Jane

Hi Ismail:

Open Window > Styles > Object Styles, select the Rectangle tool and draw the rectangle. You will see that rectangles are automatically assigned the object style called [Basic Graphic Frame]. Delete the rectangle, edit [Basic Graphic Frame] to remove the stroke. Now all current and all future rectangles in that file using the [Basic Graphic Frame] definition will no longer have a stroke.

~Barb