Text showing up as a square

I've just opened up a file I've been working on for UNI, and the text files I have set up in the paragraph styles come up as boxes. I tried to type, to see if that changed anything, but it just came up as a box too. I'm confused because the typeface is in the list at the top.
What can I do?

Are you referring to the gray lines where the type is, instead of words you can read? This is called "greeked" type and by default is set to dispaly this way when the magnification is zoomed out enough for the type to appear as 7 pts or smaller. Zooming in will bring back the words, and you can adjust the threshold in your preferences under Display Performance. Feel free to set to 0 if you like and you'll never be bothered by greeked type again. This is one of the few preferences that affects all documents, not just the current doc, if one is open, or new docs if none are open.
It also looks as if there may be a hyperlink up near the upper right corner (the rectangular outline around some of the text in the second line that is greeked). You can select the hyperlink in the hyperlinks panel and change the appearance.
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