InDesign CS4 - baseline grid

Hello
I am working on someone else's INDD document. How do you reset the baseline grid to original settings. The previous user made it have bigger squares.
Thanks in advance.

Doo you mena the documetn grid? That has squares, the basline grid is just horizontal lines.
Both are set in the preferences under Grids.

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