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Yellow Highlighted Text Indesign

New Here ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

I am having a problem where lines of text are highlighted yellow for no reason. I checked paragraph styles and made sure no rules were applied, turned off highlighting for hyphenation and justification, and it still shows. Any ideas on how to fix??

 
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Community Expert , Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Yes, it could. Try paste without formatting instead of paste as the first troubleshooting step.

 

Paste could carry a style conflict with it.

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Enthusiast , Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Is it possible there is conditional text set to Indicator > Method: Highlight and Appearance > Color: Yellow? The Conditional Text panel is under Window > Type & Tables.

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New Here , Oct 05, 2023 Oct 05, 2023

IDK if this is what you are experiencing, but I had a similar situation. The paragraph style that was used for the affected paragraphs had the "Keep Lines Together" box checked and the "Keep with next ___ lines" had 1 in the blank. I deselected the "Keep Lines Together" box, and changed the "Keep with next ___ lines" to 0. The yellow highlighting disappeared.

 

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Community Expert ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020
It's not for no reason. Those are composition highlights for H&J violations.

You can turn it off in your preferences.
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New Here ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

If you read my above post, I already checked H&J violations and they are turned off in my preferences. The text still shows yellow.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Sorry, but I missed that. Can you post a screenshot?

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New Here ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

I posted a screenshot of the text in my original post. The text turning yellow is whenever i copy and paste from a different document i'm noticing. Could that have something to do with it?

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Community Expert ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Yes, it could. Try paste without formatting instead of paste as the first troubleshooting step.

 

Paste could carry a style conflict with it.

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New Here ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

That worked! Thank you so much Bob.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

I think that “glyph substitution” is checked in Preferences > Composition

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New Here ,
Feb 25, 2025 Feb 25, 2025

This was the case for me! Thank you!

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Is it possible there is conditional text set to Indicator > Method: Highlight and Appearance > Color: Yellow? The Conditional Text panel is under Window > Type & Tables.

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New Here ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020

Yes, I am working in someone else's doc and didn't know they had set up conditional text for certain sections. Thank you so much David!

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Community Expert ,
Jan 27, 2020 Jan 27, 2020
So, here's what happened. Bringing in that text brought the formatting along.

By using paste without formatting, it only brought the text and honored the style in the document you're pasting into.
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Contributor ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

So I have the same problem, picked up someone elses ID project and I'm changing fonts, format, etc. But can't get rid of these damn yellow highlights! They dissapear on preview, but I don't work in preview and they are driving me nuts!

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Community Expert ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

Read the entire discussion!

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Contributor ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

Actually I did read the entire discussion. Have no idea how the text was imported to the ID file. 

This is an already established file that I am cleaning up. 

Conditional text didn't seem to bring any results. 

Glyphs have nothing to do with it.

Bob, you are usually more helpful 🙂

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Community Expert ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

My original answer was to check composition preferences to see if highlighting of H&J violations is enabled. That is still my answer since you haven't indicated anything else that you tried.

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Contributor ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

Sorry, you are right as usual! Have never seen this before!

Thank you!

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Community Expert ,
Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020
Glad you got it sorted. Sorry about the snark earlier, been a long day.
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Community Beginner ,
Oct 12, 2021 Oct 12, 2021

AHH, thank you guys! I had the same issues - picking up someone else's InDesign to clean up. WORKed! thanks.

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New Here ,
Sep 23, 2022 Sep 23, 2022

Thank you so much it really helpful.

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New Here ,
Oct 05, 2023 Oct 05, 2023

IDK if this is what you are experiencing, but I had a similar situation. The paragraph style that was used for the affected paragraphs had the "Keep Lines Together" box checked and the "Keep with next ___ lines" had 1 in the blank. I deselected the "Keep Lines Together" box, and changed the "Keep with next ___ lines" to 0. The yellow highlighting disappeared.

 

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New Here ,
Mar 26, 2025 Mar 26, 2025
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In Preferences, under Composition, see if Substituted Fonts or Substituted Glyphs is clicked on. If so, unclick them.

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