Unwanted boxes on text box

[beckyr48771963]

i am a journalism instructor and i have multiple students laying out individual pages that we then put in one magazine file on indesign. we have an issue i cannot resolve. We have white boxes above amd below The text box.

They move and seem to be attached but there is not border and we cannot remove. HELP!

[SJRiegel]

Check the paragraph rules (in the paragraph pallet, or paragraph style pallet) 

Be sure to check for rule above and rule below.

[beckyr48771963]

Yes. It is all set at 0

[John Mensinger]

Sounds like something abnormal (as in: not something we've all seen before). Without a screenshot, one could only guess.

[beckyr48771963]

How do I send a screenshot?  Cannot copy

[Steve Werner]

Creating a screen shot is a function of your computer operating system. Search Google for how to do it on your computer.

You screen shot should be in a format like JPEG or PNG. In the forum editor, click the Insert Image icon at the top of the editing screen.

[beckyr48771963]

sorry...I was on my phone and could not figure out.  Here it is.  If you see the text box on the right, those white boxes above the texts box are what I am talking about.  This is showing up in more than one layout.

[SJRiegel]

Can you share a page or two of one of these documents via dropbox (or other file sharing service)? It certainly looks like paragraph rules, but it's hard to tell from just a screenshot.

[beckyr48771963]

I can, but it is not paragraph rule.  We have checked everything.  It feels like it is a virus in the doc.  Is that possible?  Because it was only on one layout, now it is on more. 

[beckyr48771963]

Dropbox - problem!.indd

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

It is Paragraph rules. I selected all the text on the right-hand page, and it all has 12 pt Paragraph Rules Above and Rules Below.

Turning both rules off fixed the problem.

[beckyr48771963]

Hallelujah!!!!!  May you be blessed with many of whatever it is you cherish most in life!!!!  When you said paragraph rules, I was looking at the rule above the page.  I have no idea how this would have been turned on in the document!!!!!!  crazy!!

thank you thank you thank you!!

[SJRiegel]

You're welcome.  

If this is happening in new documents, check your Paragraph Pallet with no documents open.