How to ungroup merged columns/ margins

[Eve.2]

Hi everyone. I need help. I am working on a two-column InDesign document, however, something that I do not know happened and the text boxes in both columns on most pages seem to be grouped and I can not move only one to adjust it to fit in the way I want. Can any one help me? 

[Peter Spier]

Not a lot of information, but it sounds like you have two-column frames spanning the width of the page. You can change the number of columns in the Text Frame Options dialog of the Object style applied to the frames to affect all of them at once, or you can do it one at a time by chaning the count in the control panel or opening the Text Frame Options dialog from a right click on the frame.

You'll then need to adjust the with of the frames to one column and add a second frame to the page, and finally, re-thread the text through the new frames.

[Eve.2]

Actually, I realized that the text boxes//object are grouped however, I can not ungroup because the group or ungroup icons are greyed and can not work. Is there a way to fix that, then that way I can easily ungroup the text boxes and the problem will be fixed. 

[Eve.2]

[Peter Spier]

The menu in your screen shot is obscuring important areas of the frame(s).

That said, in order to ungroup you must haver the entire group selected, so either you've some method (direct select tool or layers panel, perhaps) to select only part of the group, or there is no group at all.

I'm amazed to see no sign of the Control Panel in your workspace. Most users cannot function without it and the valuable information and quick access to commands that it provides.

Have you  actually verified that waht appears to be a single frame selected behind that menu is two frames? Open the layers panel and check to see what is selected.

[Eve.2]

Thank you. I decided to just copy-paste into fresh pages and delete the affected text boxes. This solved the issue. 

[Frans v.d. Geest]

Select the Text frame with the Black arrow, then hit ctrl-B (cmnd B on Mac); look in the dialog for how many Columns it says there; change it to 1 if it is 2, hit OK, and then resize the Text Frame as needed.