InDesign textblock fills with black

[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

When I opened an InDesign doc that has been in progress, now some of the text boxes are filled with solid black areas that cover the type. How can I fix?

[kglad]

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[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

Thank you. I wasn't quite sure how/where to place my question. I stumbled upon this spot.

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @Stephanie28896839i1p4,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble. Would you mind telling us the version of InDesign installed on your machine? Does that happen with all files or with a specific file? Did you tried copy-pasting the content of this file into a new file and let us know if the issue persists?

We will try our best to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

I am on InDesign 19.2. I just setup new doc, copied and pasted text into this and the same black areas appeared.

[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

let me open up some other files I have and see if this is also happening.

[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

No, I don't see it happening in other InDesign docs that I have in the works.

[jmlevy]

It seems that paragraph shading is applied to some paragraphs. paragraph shading is NOT a frame attribute but a tesxt atribute. Check the paragraph styles (if you use them):

If you don't use styles, use the dropdown menu at the very end of the control panel to check if there is a paragraph shading.

[Stephanie28896839i1p4]

Okay, well that's embarrassing. That's all it was...
Not sure how that got checked.
Thanks!