Deleting Guides from Your InDesign Document

I know that lots of use work with Graphic Designers. We can’t all be design experts. Or you may have inherited InDesign documents from a previous staff member, etc.

And lets just say that the way the did things doesn’t quite mess with your style. One of those migh, just might, be the use of guides. I’ve opened up some documents where the author had gone whole hog with the guides. I mean they were everywhere! I could hardly see the content on the page through the forest of guides.

Now if this has ever happened to you, let me share a little trick that the folks over at GraphicMac posted to their blog. A way to delete all the guides at once, without having to select them individually. If you use the keyboard shortcut Command + Option + G then Delete if on a Mac or Control + Alt + G then Delete if on Windows. This selects all the guides on the page and deletes them.

Pretty slick! Besure to check out their post as it also gives you the keyboard shortcut to unlock the guides if they’re locked.