Underlining in Paragraph / Text frame

[RichardPSI]

I have inherited a catalogue document and cannot edit the underline colour in the below contents text box:

I can change text colour but not the lines underneath. They are part of the text box / paragraph.

[vladan saveljic]

check paragraph rules (below or above) and change colour

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

To clarify, if paragraph rules are turned on, then turn them off. (Uncheck either rule "above" or "below."

If a paragraph style was used to format the text, the turn them off in the style.

Underlines can also be set in the Underline Options portion of a style, too.

And they also could be done with Paragraph Borders.

Hard to tell from your screen capture which method was used.

[Jongware]

Bevi, it's not a Paragraph Border. The paragraph panel is shown in the screenshot, and if any of the top/left/right/bottom values in Border are used, that panel would show a tick at "Border".

It also could be a regular underline but that is relatively tricky to get right, what with the different font sizes and all – just not the effort.

[Laubender]

Could also be a table.

Richard could check that: Hit Esc when the text cursor is in the text.

A cell would be selected if it's a table.

Some screenshots from my German InDesign that show a sample.

A one-column table:

Table cell selected:

Some controls for strokes on table cells. Whole table is selected. In the widget for the strokes the bottom and the center stroke is selected (blue highlighted) and the controls left of it are showing that a 1 Pt stroke with "Black" is applied. Another control is showing that this table has 10 rows and 1 column.

How to get rid of the strokes ?
Just set the value to 0 plus apply "None" as color for the stroke.

Regards,
Uwe

[Jongware]

If it isn't basic underlined text and the lines are not separately drawn but indeed part of the text, then they must be Paragraph Rules.

See the Online Help: Format paragraphs in Adobe InDesign: Add rules (lines) above or below paragraphs.