Text in a text box will not appear although I can highlight it

[JeffDodd4]

Last night, I was working on an annual report. I had finished a spread and moved on to another one. When I return to the first spread, I found that almost all of the text had disappeared. Shocked, I started looking for it. It is all still there in its various text boxes, but I can no long see it. I can highlight it, but changing the color, arranging the boxes to the top, and addressing box properties has done nothing. I can still edit the text in the story editor. There is no overset text. I'm stumped. I know that I've done something stupid, but I'm having a difficult time self-assessing my own stupidity.

Thoughts from the community would be welcome -- not so much on my personal stupidity, but on the text problem.

Thanks to all!

[Barb Binder]

Summary: the text is there, you can highlight it, see it in Story Editor but it isn't white (or the color of the page or frame it is over)?

What happens if you copy a text frame and paste it in a new file?

[Derek Cross]

Which version of InDesign and OS?

[amaarora]

Hi,

Can you add a screenshot?

Did you try to recompose text? (ctrl+alt+slash,cmd+opt+/)

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-Aman

[wrensauer]

Hi Jeff, were you able to resolve the disappearing text with Aman or Barbara's suggestions?

Let us know if you need further assistance.

Best,

Wren

[manal shanableh]

Check the attributes, if check on Nonprinting or overprint, Uncheck it.

Window> Output> Attributes

it maybe will fix it.