Text underline STYLE will not turn off

[jimp87522270]

Everytime I create a new document in InDesign, the underline text STYLE is always on. This is not a text RULE or a HYPERLINK - this is the text STYLE feature. I've tried every trick I can think of (opening a new doc and turning it off, closing the doc with it off, etc...) to turn it off but it will not turn off. If anyone can help me - I would be your bff forever.

And while we're on a related subject - is there anyway to set the program so it always opens a new document with the SAME settings all the time? I do a lot of different projects so when the defaults remain from the last document I used - it doesn't help at all with a new document - it actually creates more work for me because I have to turn all these things off again. This doesn't seem to exist in InDesign which is kind of strange since every other program of Adobe's seems to work that way.

Any help I can get would be great - thanks.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You need to check what you've set in [Basic Paragraph Style]. 

And what do you mean by "same settings"? 

Panels, colors, styles? 

[jimp87522270]

Thanks for the suggestion - hadn't thought of that. However underline is not on in the basic paragraph styles.

So far as "same settings" - I don't want things like font colors turned on or underlines or character styles, etc... I don't want to have to turn everything off when I shut down or when I start up. Think of it this way... every job I do is unique. So I don't want (basically) anything that I was using in the last document I created. Is there some way I can set up default  settings so I can click one box and everything reverts to my original start-up position? Don't know if you ever used Quark Xpress, but everytime I started up in that program - the defaults were automatically reset... Type was always black, boxes were always transparent, underlines (and all other styles) were always off... Etc...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You can set a lot of things "as defaults" - if you set them without any documents open. 

[jimp87522270]

That's what I thought - but where can I find the underline STYLE with no document open so I can turn it off? It's not in the type preferences (at least not that I can tell).

[jimp87522270 · Accepted solution]

Wait - I found it. Adobe buried it pretty deep...

Window  > Type &Tables > Character (flyout window options) > Underline

Shift-Command-U

[jimp87522270]

Thanks for the help!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Thanks for the help!

By @jimp87522270

You're welcome. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

It's not buried 😉 it's always in the same place - you just need to "open" them manually - when no docs are open. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's also controlled on a style by style basis under the Paragraph Style | Underline Options settings. ID is not big on the Word-style "Ctrl-B"/"Ctrl-I"/"Ctrl-U" spot formatting options, and using them isn't recommended.

The alternative, perhaps preferable (or at least more orthodox) approach would have been to open a document and with nothing in the doc selected, open the Para Styles pane for the base style and clear the setting under Underline Options. That, in short, is how you set or clear any setting you want as a default — set it with no relevant object selected, and then it becomes the default setting until changed.

(There was also the possibility that your 'underline' was a Rule Below setting, or even Paragraph Border setting, or a mispositioned strikethrough setting... so working through the settings on a style with no selected focus can be the way to fix more complicated unwanted defaults. It just happened that a formatting shortcut controlled this one.)

[jimp87522270]

I'm a former production manager, so I never use type styles because in the old days they tripped up imagesetters which resulted in ruined film. Not even sure how it got turned on in the first place (probably inadvertent keyboard command). That's why it was driving me crazy - I had to turn it off everytime I opened a document.