Smart guides not working, CS6

Tom Pardy

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    • January 29, 2015 at 9:00 pm #73014
      Tom Pardy
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      I love smart guides — that appearance of a red (magenta?) line when I am dragging an object towards the middle of a page, letting me know I have found it. Yes, smart guides do several other things as well, but you already know that. For some odd reason it has stopped working. I went to Preferences/Guides and Pasteboard and the four little check boxes under “Smart Guide Options” were all checked. What have I missed?

      I solved the problem, at least for now, by going into Time Machine (yes, I am on a Mac) and by using a trick I tracked down on the web, was able to get into the usually hidden preferences folder of my User Library folder. I went back about two months (just to make sure) and copied the InDesign Preferences from the En_GB folder. Then I exited from Time Machine, deleted the InDesign Preferences in my current En_GB folder and pasted the earlier one in.

      But that seems a clumsy way to solve the problem. Is there a better way? And what caused it to stop working in the first place?

    • February 2, 2015 at 7:40 pm #73089
      Tom Pardy
      Member

      Can no one help me with this?

    • February 3, 2015 at 6:08 am #73094
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Does this help?
      https://creativepro.com/why-is-some-feature-grayed-out-in-indesign.php/

    • February 3, 2015 at 7:10 am #73097
      Tom Pardy
      Member

      Thank you, David. That explained it exactly. I must have hit the key combination Command-Shift-Apostrophe by mistake somewhere along the line.

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