text: user1075: I am using IGV 2.5.2 and would not like to see the insertions  in my aligned reads. How can I do that? I have managed to remove mismatched bases because there is an option to do so when I right-click on the window ("Show mismatched bases"). Now I would like to do the same with these purple insertions.
  
  3rd January 2020 update
  
  Thanks to a member's response, I found some parameter in the preferences that might be helpful to hide the indels. However, I have tried different numbers from 0 to 1000 and the indels are still shown. What numbers should I put to the parameters "Show indel threshold (bases)" and should I click the box or not?
  
  user181: Preferences -> Alignments -> Hide indels < 'x' bases.
  
  Credit to Pierre Lindenbaum
  
original_text: 1075: <p>I am using IGV 2.5.2 and would not like to see the insertions  in my aligned reads. How can I do that? I have managed to remove mismatched bases because there is an option to do so when I right-click on the window ("Show mismatched bases"). Now I would like to do the same with these purple insertions.</p>
  
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  <h3>3rd January 2020 update</h3>
  
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  <p>Thanks to a member's response, I found some parameter in the preferences that might be helpful to hide the indels. However, I have tried different numbers from 0 to 1000 and the indels are still shown. What numbers should I put to the parameters "Show indel threshold (bases)" and should I click the box or not?</p>
   181: <p>Preferences <code>-&gt;</code> Alignments <code>-&gt;</code> Hide indels &lt; 'x' bases.</p>
  
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  <p>Credit to <a href="https://www.biostars.org/p/339007/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pierre Lindenbaum</a></p>
  