How to Remove the Annoying Square Grid in InDesign

[albertrosenbrand]

Hi everyone, does anyone know how to get rid of this square grid in InDesign?

I've tried every setting that has to do with grids but propably I'm not looking in the right spot.

Many thanks!

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[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

View > Grids & Guides > Show/Hide Document Grid menu.

[albertrosenbrand]

Hi Dave, thanks, but I need my Document Grid. It's the grey squares I don't want...

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I'm not following... the document grid IS the gray squares.

You can:

Turn the grid off but keep snap to document grid on,

Turn the grid on but keep snap off,

Turn the both on or off.

Adjust the size spacing and color of the grid under the Grids preferences.

Just a thought: the document grid is not to be confused with the baseline grid.

[albertrosenbrand]

Hi Dave, sorry, you're right, it is of course the Document grid. I only need to have my margins and columns visible but whatever I try, the Document grid is always there. 
Any idea what may cause that?
Thanks again!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted solution]

Perhaps someone made the grid with guidelines on the parent pages? Those would be on a per-layer basis, so make sure the layer is not locked. Then go to Layout>Create Guides, choose 0/0 for columns/row and click Remove Existing Ruler Guides. 

See what happens. 

[albertrosenbrand]

Hi Dave, that's not working too. I think I better set up a new document, because there are some more issues with this one and I'm losing too much time on it.
Thank you for your patience and have a good day!
Albert

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Can you upload or email me the document?

D Creamer at IDEAS training dot com 

(no spaces and replace the "at" and "doc")

[albertrosenbrand]

Hi Dave, thank you for the offer! Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to share materials for this client.

However, I did explore your suggestion that it was manually created, and here's what I found: The document contains 15 parent page spreads in total, 11 of which are based on 4 "main" parent spreads. On 2 of those, the grid was manually created and locked on the pages...
Some designers like to overcomplicate things, it seems.
Thanks again!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Glad to have helped.