InDesign CS6 Margins and Columns don't show up

[Guest]

Hi everyone.

Since yesterday I have a problem in InDesign CS6.
I created margins and columns on my Master Pages, but they don't show in the documents pages...
My guides are activated, also my Baseline Grid and I can see them. (I now created guides, so I can work somehow, but I want to know what's the problem).
Is it a bug?
Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Here two pictures to clarify the situation:

My Master Pages:

Pages in the document:

[Derek Cross]

Try: View > Grid and Guides > Show Guides.

[Guest]

That's activated already.
As you can see on my screenshots, guides are shown. This doesn't help me to see my margins and columns.
But thanks for your suggestion!

[Peter Spier]

Is it possible you have something filling the background that would be obscuring the guides?

[Guest]

No, not the case

[Peter Spier]

All docs, or just this one?

[Guest]

Seems it's only this one. I really think it's some kind of bug. This never happened before.

[Peter Spier]

Try this: Remove minor corruption by exporting

[Guest]

Thanks you.
The Method with IDML unfortunately didn't work. Maybe I will try out the other option in the next days.

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

Try moving the pages to a new file.

[Guest]

Thanks a lot. I was thinking of that and it worked

[camisa_florida]

There is an another solution: go to Master Page, open menu/layout/margins and columns, click for disable the preview, and click again to enable... it works!

[anthonyc5829746]

Worked for me - thanks!

[kristenm64851320]

Adding this for someone in my situation -- turned out I was in Preview mode rather than Normal, so margins weren't showing and the pasteboard looked different (View > Screen Mode > Normal).

[JPKPhila]

Thanks, Kristen, for a simple answer to a perplexing problem.  I'm new to InDesign and it obviously has loads of little 'gotchas' as well as some bugs that can torment you until you have the experience. 

[Deb@VT]

this is definitely what was wrong with the document I'm working on, which was inherited from another designer. None of the other suggestions here will do a thing if you have the view set to "preview" mode. Drove me crazy till I saw this. Thanks Kristin. 🙂

[Karl5E91]

that is it! this worked for me as well. great job.

[Leda Cristina28587380yl68]

Thank you, Kristen, you saved me! It worked!

[Heidi26569133qzl9]

Thank you! Thank you! This has happened before and I ended up finishing a 138-page book without the gridlines - a stressor and it took forever. This time, on the homestretch for finishing a community newspaper, it happened again. I must have pushed an alternate key or something and the margins disappeared. I read the tips and followed yours, which worked beautifully. Thank you, again!

[ChelseaJordan]

Actually that could be a big waste of time, especially depending on how big the document is. The best way to get them to show up is to pull a guide down from the ruler bar and your guides will show. Just a trick for when the software is not working correctly with showing guides.

[paolat19112972]

Brilliant! so simple and yet I didn't think of doing this. thanks!

[The KSK]

thanks so much for this! very nice easy fix!

[teenyrobots]

This worked for me, THANK YOU.

[shabbyking45]

You pressed a quick key and turned off guides. Just go to view-grids & guides-show guides