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Expert: InDesign Pro - 2/25/2009


Question
I am a novice with Indesign and AdobePhotoshop so excuse daft terminology.  
I am creating a diary which has a master page with a grid of lines.  This has
been set up for months, has been printed fine before, and all was ok until I
returned to work on it this week, and suddenly the type boxes I create refuse
to sit directly on the horizontal lines of the diary grid.  They will go a few
points higher, or below the line, but if you try and nudge the box up and
down,it stutters and wobbles and you can't place it accurately.  Have I hit
some keyboard shortcut I don't know about? It was working fine before.  The
only stopgap measure I can do is to copy an existing type box from a page I
already did before this problem started, change the type and place it in
position and it will sit where I want. Can you help? Textwrap is off, by the
way, I do know that much!  Naomi

Answer

Align to Baseline Grid
Hi Naomi, thanks for the question.

I have a feeling that you have accidently turned on Snap to Document Grid or Align to Baseline Grid.

The first one is found under View > Grids and Guides > Snap to Document Grid and the second is found in the Paragraph panel near the bottom-right corner. I've attached an image to help you locate it.

If this doesn't solve the problem, let me know. There are a few other options we can try.

Thanks, good luck!

Scott

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