Why underlines and boxes are moving when adding or deleting text ?

[kairil93789577]

HI,

I have a problem with changing the text in  brochure file. Every time i  add some text or delete some  the headline underlines copy automatically and everything is moving. I would like to choose what items are moving and no automatic copying. Also when i delete the headline underline then when  using  Enter key then this lines appear again which each time i use key Enter.

Help please?

[Eternal Warrior]

I would guess that you might have some stray character or paragraph styles try resetting all of these by selecting all text first then choosing [basic paragraph] and [none] on appropriate style menu. Also make sure you clear overrides. Let me know if that helps.

[kairil93789577]

Hey, thanks a lot, it helped me at least that much that I managed to delete underlines which I couldnt before because  they were sort of automatically WITH title already. Now I just make underlines to titles when my brochure is 100% correctly designed so I just add them as a last thing. But even if I add them as a last thing then alreday check if i enter up or down my text the underlines still copy automatically with each ENTER so thats why I must add them as last thing not to move any text or boxes anymore.

[Eternal Warrior]

Any chance you can send me the InDesign file you are using so I can try to understand the problem better?

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

the underlines still copy automatically with each ENTER

Here's why:

Formatting assigned to a paragraph is automatically copied to the next paragraph when you press Enter/Return. In the example below note the format of the first paragraph.

When I press Enter, the formatting is automatically assigned to the next paragraph.

So select the next paragraph and turn off the underlining.

Alternatively, what you are calling underlining might be a paragraph rule.

In that case, open the Control Panel menu on the far right side of your screen > Paragraph Rules. Disable Rule On for Rule Above or Rule Below (or both)

This is all very manual. The best way to work is to set up Paragraph styles to automate the formatting.