Text not changing

[Rick24947271x0st]

Hi everyone, I currently have an InDesign file open and am trying to change my font colour to pure black, but when I highlight it and select it it stays grey. I utilized a template but even within the template I could change the font colour to pure black, I didn't mess with any settings, is there a fix?

[Willi Adelberger]

Did you try to change the paragraph style?

Is above the text a character style?

[Rick24947271x0st]

Actually I did find a solution, that being replacing the text with a copy and then transforming that to black but thank you.

[Derek Cross]

As a matter of interest, what do you mean by "pure black"?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Did you possibly have a tint applied or a character style defining a tint?