InD 3.0--can't select guides

[Jenny_Van_West@adobeforums.com]

I'm able to set guides by dragging from the ruler as I've always done...only now once I put them down I can't select and move them again or get rid of them and start over. I've restarted InDesign and my computer to no avail. Any thoughts?

TIA!

Jenny

[Bob Levine]

Do you have the guides locked?

Bob

[Eric Otto]

Guides can reside on layers just like any other object. If you pull your guides out on a layer and then lock the layer, you also lock the guides.

[Nini Tjäder]

Also check that you are not actually working in preview mode instead of layout mode. That's the most common reason for what you describe.

[Tom Usrey]

And if you put the guides on the master page, and you're trying to access them on a document page, you can't until you do a Override All Master Page Items (in the flyout of the Pages palette).

[jon_gallet@adobeforums.com]

Tom, just for completeness I'd like to mention that the keyboard shortcut for selecting an object on a master page (including guides) from a document page is Cmd+Shift while selecting.

[Tom Usrey]

Jon, thanks for bringing that up. I'm actually surprised that - if you have Guides in Back as a preference and you cover a guide on the Master page completely with a Frame - you're able to select and release the guide on the document page (with Cmd+Shift+click) through the box.

[John_Slate@adobeforums.com]

....and let's not forget view>lock guides being checked.

If that is checked without any documents open, all new documents will default to that setting

[Bob Levine]

Nobody reads post one.

Bob

[John_Slate@adobeforums.com]

oops

[Codinedawn]

Ah, same problem, fixed:

View > Grids & Guides > Lock Guides.

Alt + Ctrl + ; (lock guides)

is similar to

Alt + Ctrl + ' (show baseline grid)