Issue with text leading changing without paragraph style being implimented?

[Jennifer Kary]

Hey all,

I have used Adobe InDesign, Illutrator and Photoshop for 15 years now and I've run into a problem I've never experienced.

I am working a new job where my predecessor did some funky things on some important InDesign documents. I'm working on a page now where I have a block of text, and every time I move it to the middle of the page the leading all of a sudden spaces out? There's literally NOTHING else on the page in this area, I've moved and deleted everything. For some reason though, the leading keeps changing when I move the text onto the page.

Also, on certain parts of the page, the text keeps "Snapping" to guides and grid areas, even though I have all of the "Snap to"'s turned off? I'm completed baffled.

I checked the master (A-Master) page and there's NOTHING set there that would cause this. The text has no paragraph, cell or text style set.

Could anyone please help me trouble shoot this? Sorry for the long rant.

[Willi Adelberger]

Are the layers of that page/spread and their parents complete empty?

[rob day]

Hi @Jennifer Kary , can you share the file? You should be able to attach it to a reply.

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

It sounds like the text is set to align to the baseline grid...

[Jennifer Kary]

Hey! It looks like I have them turned off 😞 

[Peter Spier]

Can you show us a screen capture with an active text cursor, the control panel visible, and baseline grids showing?