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How to Delete an Undeletable Page Item in InDesign

Sandee Cohen
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InDesign Magazine issue 74 coverThis article appeared in Issue 74 of InDesign Magazine.

Q. I inherited a document from a co-worker who was laid off abruptly. He must have known something was about to happen, because the opening page of the file he was working on has a nasty note in a text frame.

I tried to delete the frame, but I couldn’t select it. I checked, and it wasn’t locked. I tried Command+Shift+click (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+click (Windows) and still couldn’t get rid of it. Finally I found it on the master page and was able to delete it. But how come the keystroke to release an item from the master didn’t work?

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Sandee Cohen
Sandee Cohen is a New York City-based instructor and corporate trainer in a wide variety of graphic programs, especially the Adobe products, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. She has been an instructor for New School University, Cooper Union, Pratt, and School of Visual Arts. She is a frequent speaker for various events. She has also been a speaker for Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and PhotoPlus conferences. She is the author of many versions of the Visual Quickstart Guides for InDesign.
  • Civi Bernath says:
    April 24, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Oh wow! Never had something like this done intentionally, but I do sometimes have unreleasable items that cause me such frustration. I just wonder how it happens without meaning to.

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