Yellow Highlighted Text Indesign

[annekendall]

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??

[BobLevine]

It's not for no reason. Those are composition highlights for H&J violations.

You can turn it off in your preferences.

[annekendall]

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]

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

[annekendall]

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?

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

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

Paste could carry a style conflict with it.

[annekendall]

That worked! Thank you so much Bob.

[jmlevy]

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

[David Popham · Accepted solution]

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.

[annekendall]

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]

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.

[Marcy McGuire]

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!

[BobLevine]

Read the entire discussion!

[Marcy McGuire]

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 🙂

[BobLevine]

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.

[Marcy McGuire]

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

Thank you!

[BobLevine]

Glad you got it sorted. Sorry about the snark earlier, been a long day.

[AndrewSinagra]

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

[Abhijit22341470qh9j]

Thank you so much it really helpful.

[Amy22137409vgib · Accepted solution]

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.