Each time I create a Text Frame it appears colored with black?

Every time I create a Text Frame with the Type tool in InDesing CS5.5 in a document named "02_End.indd", (this happen only for this file) the it appears filled with black color. On the other documents this does not happen (the text frames are with no fill).
Can anyone tell me how can I change the default color of the Text frames?
Please help me?

Make sure you don't have anything selected. Then look in the swatches palette. If you see the default fill is black, set it to [None].
If not, it may be your default object style, or possibly a document corruption -- if you suspect the latter, you could try to Remove Document Corruption as per the instructions at the top of this forum.

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