how to hide the green square guides in normal screen mode

Question

whenever i create a new document, there are these green squares on the page. they are not guides, neither are they defined somewhere else in indesign. somehow, they are visually interfering when doing graphics or layout as there are guidelines and baseline grids, which i use more. is there a way to hide theese green squares and what are they even called?

going to preview mode is not an option as it does not show margins and baseline grids.

James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted Answer

thank you for defining that this is called a layout grid. unfortunately, there seems to be none under the layout menu. did adobe remove this? no results in indesign help either.

If you didn't find an answer in that help page, it may be that your ID preferences are corrupted. Reset them; here's a basic page on how to do that. (It varies a little with platform and version.)

Reset InDesign Preferences and Other Troubleshooting

James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

This looks very much like a text grid for Asian languages, but I'm out of depth to say anything more. I'd suggest looking under View | Grids & Guides and turn off any of the options that say "Show..."

There are probably additional settings in Preferences, probably under Grids...

If you're not using the "CJK" version of InDesign, which supports Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc., I have no idea what these are. 🙂

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