Problem with Blue Highlighting

[Geir Nystrand]

Hi. I suddenly got this green markups on my text and I cannot find how to get rid of it...Can someone please help me.

[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

Hi

This blue highlight means your text has overriden style.

You can turn it of by clicking this icon:

More info here:https://indesignsecrets.com/why-is-my-indesign-text-highlighted-in-blue.php

[Geir Nystrand]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your help! Thank you!!!!!

[Alexandre Becquet]

Yes this is the blue highlight. One of my students had the same problem yesterday.

[Derek Cross]

Use InDesign's Paragraph (and Character) Styles and see this facility as a friend - not a problem!

[sedesign]

and when the style is NOT being overridden and i still have a page full of blue? i assume this has something to do with hyphenation/keep/justification issues? but if it's set in the style, and the style is not overridden, then why the highlights? i've looked everywhere except the right place to figure this out. 

[sedesign]

HA. it always helps get to the right answer more quickly by posting a question to a group and THEN trying to figure it out. 

my issue was indeed caused by "violations" highlighting. I have custom kerning/tracking in my styles and inDesign doesn't like that apparently. I turned off that violation in Preferences>Composition, and voila! no more pages of blue highlight. 

thank you for your help.  🫤😁😉

[Joel Cherney]

Is it Edit -> Preferences -> Composition -> Custom Tracking/Kerning?

I assume it's one of those checkboxes in Edit -> Preferences -> Composition. I can see that some of the paragraphs start with a bit of yellow? That's most likely generated a check in the H&J Violations in the same preference pane. 

[sedesign]

yes, that's the correct path, sorry for my shortened version. (i set up a custom keyboard shortcut because it's epically annoying to have to use the mouse and dropdowns to get there when you want to change what you see in each of the 44 chapters of a book!) 

for my purposes, i turned off H&J (hyphenation & justification) violations, and Custom Tracking/Kerning. 

on my final pass of the book i'll turn H&J back on, in case i missed anything i shouldn't have.