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My text frames have a white background

Community Beginner ,
Mar 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017

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Hi There

I am a new user for indesign CC I have opened an old CS6 file in indesign CC and now my text frames have a solid white background? So when placed on top of a pic I cannot see the pic because of a white background text frame? How can I make the text frame transparent?

Hope someone can help

Cheers Pete

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New Here ,
Jun 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017

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Is your text frame filled with white color?

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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017

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I've put a white text frame on a blue background so you can see it change.

Select your text frame with the Black Arrow (Selection) tool. Open the Swatches panel (Window > Swatches). At the top left of the Swatches panel you can select the Fill (background) with the square icon. Below you can see it is filled with white (called Paper in InDesign):

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Click on the None swatch (the one with the red slash). That will change it to No fill which is transparent:

InDesign CC008.png

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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I have the same problem, BUT, my text box has a NONE fill. The type itself has white behind the type ONLY. You can see bits of the background around the type. Even when I copy/paste into a new text box. Any ideas?

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Community Expert ,
Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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Maybe this? I do not know the original term in English.

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or paragraph rules

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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Thank you. I checked that as well. That was not the issue. I also checked to see if it was a Outer Glow Filter, but that also was not the case.

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Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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Screen Shot 2020-11-05 at 2.45.02 PM.png

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Guide ,
Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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That looks like Paragraph Shading.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 30, 2023 Oct 30, 2023

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Thank you migintosh. That's exactly the problem I was having. And removing the paragraph shading fixed it. Thank you.

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Apr 07, 2021 Apr 07, 2021

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If you brought your text in from MS Word, the white behind your text could be an artifact of that. 

 

Look in your Swatches palette for a color called "White" and delete it. 

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Sep 15, 2023 Sep 15, 2023

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I had the same problem and just removed the color from the word, the white had another name but it worked. thanks

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New Here ,
Jan 19, 2021 Jan 19, 2021

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I have a very similar problem.... but my problem begun when I Placed a docx document inside my text frame.
I configured well the import, assigning my base paragraph style to the style of the imported body text, but now all the imported text has a white background that it's not really a white background.... because it's not a changeable color.
But... if i reassign my base paragraph style to the text, the white background vanish...... really didn't understand

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Jan 19, 2021 Jan 19, 2021

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If you apply a style and it doesn't look right until you re-apply the style, it's likely that you have a local override on the type. That means that some aspect of the paragraph style is different—in your case it could be paragraph shading. You can see if a local override is present by selecting some of the text with the text cursor using the type tool and seeing if there is a + beside the name of the style in the styles pallet. Here, I have the letter "u" selected, and there is no local override:

Screen Shot 2021-01-19 at 5.53.38 PM.png

…but here, I have the letter "m" selected in a word that has a different character color that is not part of the paragraph style. Because the different color doesn't match the paragraph style's black color, it shows a + next to the name of the style, but only when the text cursor is within the affected text:

Screen Shot 2021-01-19 at 5.53.44 PM.png

Also, a character style that has been applied will not show as a local override:

Screen Shot 2021-01-19 at 5.59.06 PM.png

You can clear overrides in the fly-out of the styles pallet, or hold Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) while clicking on the name of the style

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