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InDesign CS6 Margins and Columns don't show up

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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Hi everyone.

Since yesterday I have a problem in InDesign CS6.
I created margins and columns on my Master Pages, but they don't show in the documents pages...
My guides are activated, also my Baseline Grid and I can see them. (I now created guides, so I can work somehow, but I want to know what's the problem).
Is it a bug?
Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Here two pictures to clarify the situation:

My Master Pages:
Bildschirmfoto 2016-11-06 um 18.29.45.png

Pages in the document:
Bildschirmfoto 2016-11-06 um 18.29.57.png

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Community Expert , Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

Try moving the pages to a new file.

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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Try: View > Grid and Guides > Show Guides.

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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That's activated already.
As you can see on my screenshots, guides are shown. This doesn't help me to see my margins and columns.
But thanks for your suggestion!

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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Is it possible you have something filling the background that would be obscuring the guides?

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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No, not the case

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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All docs, or just this one?

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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Seems it's only this one. I really think it's some kind of bug. This never happened before.

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Nov 06, 2016 Nov 06, 2016

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Thanks you.
The Method with IDML unfortunately didn't work. Maybe I will try out the other option in the next days.

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Try moving the pages to a new file.

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Nov 07, 2016 Nov 07, 2016

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Thanks a lot. I was thinking of that and it worked

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Apr 08, 2018 Apr 08, 2018

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There is an another solution: go to Master Page, open menu/layout/margins and columns, click for disable the preview, and click again to enable... it works!

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Sep 26, 2021 Sep 26, 2021

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Worked for me - thanks!

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Apr 18, 2023 Apr 18, 2023

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Thank you so much thanks god you save me thankyou😭😭🥹

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New Here ,
Sep 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019

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Adding this for someone in my situation -- turned out I was in Preview mode rather than Normal, so margins weren't showing and the pasteboard looked different (View > Screen Mode > Normal).

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Jan 29, 2020 Jan 29, 2020

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Thanks, Kristen, for a simple answer to a perplexing problem.  I'm new to InDesign and it obviously has loads of little 'gotchas' as well as some bugs that can torment you until you have the experience. 

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New Here ,
May 12, 2020 May 12, 2020

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this is definitely what was wrong with the document I'm working on, which was inherited from another designer. None of the other suggestions here will do a thing if you have the view set to "preview" mode. Drove me crazy till I saw this. Thanks Kristin. 🙂

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Sep 19, 2022 Sep 19, 2022

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that is it! this worked for me as well. great job.

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New Here ,
Feb 25, 2023 Feb 25, 2023

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Thank you, Kristen, you saved me! It worked!

 

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Mar 19, 2023 Mar 19, 2023

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Thank you! Thank you! This has happened before and I ended up finishing a 138-page book without the gridlines - a stressor and it took forever. This time, on the homestretch for finishing a community newspaper, it happened again. I must have pushed an alternate key or something and the margins disappeared. I read the tips and followed yours, which worked beautifully. Thank you, again!

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New Here ,
Apr 19, 2023 Apr 19, 2023

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I love Indesign, but it's those little bits of know-how that you are not aware of that really drive you mad. Like making sure in order to stop all objects from turning opaque (even when you select fill), you have to be in web settings and not print settings on the document settings tab - it drove me mad for hours!!!   This though worked!

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Jul 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023

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Bless you, Kristen!

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Jan 30, 2020 Jan 30, 2020

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Actually that could be a big waste of time, especially depending on how big the document is. The best way to get them to show up is to pull a guide down from the ruler bar and your guides will show. Just a trick for when the software is not working correctly with showing guides.

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Apr 14, 2020 Apr 14, 2020

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Brilliant! so simple and yet I didn't think of doing this. thanks!

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Apr 18, 2020 Apr 18, 2020

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thanks so much for this! very nice easy fix!

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