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• • April 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm #61962
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    OK, I have probably done something silly and will be enbarrassed when someone points out the bleeding obvious. But it has me beat.

    I seem to have lost my smart guides in ID5.5. In Preferences/Guides and Pasteboard I have all four options checked under Smart Guide Options but, when I grab an object using the Selection tool (black arrow) and drag it around the page, I no longer get the coloured lines indicating when I have lined that object up with an edge or a centre of something else.

    I LOVE that feature! Where has it gone? I want it back! Is there some other checkbox somewhere else that I have overlooked? Aaaaaargh!

  • April 7, 2012 at 12:30 am #61963
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Is it this? https://creativepro.com/why…..design.php

  • April 7, 2012 at 4:32 pm #61965
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Thanks for your reply, David, but I’m afraid that was not it.

    I checked under the View menu and “Grids & Guides > Snap to Document Grid” was not turned on. The mystery continues.

  • June 15, 2012 at 10:34 am #62436
    valbogs

    Member

    Not sure if you've figured out your problem, Furry. I had a similar problem and tried David's answer but, like you, that didn't fix my particular situation. I found the answer here: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990

    Once I replaced my preferences everything went fine. I used the first 'quick and easy' method, although it's not that easy. In the end I held down ctrl-alt-shift before (and during) the loading of InDesign as it was the only way I could get the dialog box to appear.

    Hope this helps if you haven't already resolved the issue.

  • December 26, 2012 at 10:58 am #63792
    Reya1600

    Member

    If anyone else has this problem, perhaps this will help. My smart guides also mysteriously disappeared recently, and after seeing this post, I was thinking I'd have to reset my preferences, as they were all enabled in my preferences just like Furry said. BUT in looking around the menus, I found that View>Grids & Guides>Smart Guides was not checked. I have no idea how this got unchecked, but I re-checked that option and viola! Problem solved, smart guides back.

    How do these things happen? I don't recall ever having a reason to uncheck this option.

  • December 26, 2012 at 4:48 pm #63796
    Tom Pardy

    Member

    Yah! That did it!

    After eight months of having no smart guides, now they have returned! :-D

    Thank you. Reya1600!

    I was reluctant to trash and reset my preferences because there are so many little personal tweeks in my preferences I am sure I would not be able to remember them all. Now I don’t have to.

    Thank you again.

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