How to turn off blue dashed line around my text box?

[design_deity]

I broke Google. I found a similar question from 2016 in here, but that solution doesn't work. I picked up this job from a designer who is no longer at the company. Does anyone know how to turn off the dashed blue — they are driving me nuts?

Thank you for helping to restore my sanity!

—Dimitry

Nothing in the Buttons window:

[jmlevy]

Did you check the stroke panel?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

My immediate thought, but I'll assume this is more complicated.

My question is, do the dashed lines disappear in Preview mode?

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[design_deity]

The lines do not appear in Preview Mode.

[design_deity]

Yes. It's not that. I think it's a bug.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Export to IDML and reopen the document. If it's a leftover glitch from some prior version or formatting, that should strip it away.

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[SJRiegel]

Have you checked the Hyperlinks panel? 

[design_deity]

I have, no hyperlinks.

[design_deity · Accepted solution]

I hate picking up design files from designers who don’t know what they are doing. This document is so full of #### I am ready to scream! No worries, everyone. Thank you for your help. 

I'm going to rebuild the file. 😐

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Uh, yeah, I was avoiding saying anything about what I can see in those sample shots...

But sometimes someone has to clean up after the parade. 🙂

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[Mike Witherell]

Did you rule out the Object Styles?

Is it grouped?

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

I don't think an object style would make a stroke outline persistent or 'invisible' in the stroke menu unless it was corrupted. But clearing any style would be a good thing to check/do.

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[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi @design_deity ,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Did you try the suggestions marked as the correct answer in this similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/why-is-there-a-blue-dashed-line-around-my-text-b...?

If not, please try that and let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards

Rishabh

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Thse text boxes are defined as buttons. If you don't need them for further use (say in a PDF), you can convert them back to plain text boxes: Right click on any of them, and pull down to Interactive > Convert to Object. Thta should clear it.