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Participant
January 27, 2020
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Yellow Highlighted Text Indesign

  • January 27, 2020
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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??

 
Correct answer Amy22137409vgib

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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Participant
March 26, 2025

In Preferences, under Composition, see if Substituted Fonts or Substituted Glyphs is clicked on. If so, unclick them.

Amy22137409vgibCorrect answer
Participant
October 5, 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.

 

David Popham
Participating Frequently
January 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.

Participant
January 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!

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 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.
jmlevy
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2020

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

Participant
February 25, 2025

This was the case for me! Thank you!

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

You can turn it off in your preferences.
Participant
January 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.

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2020

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