Comments on: Paragraph Rules in InDesign CS3

By: David Greenwell

David Greenwell — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:36:10 +0000

Great tip Dave.

Just one thing… wouldn’t it make sense to set the rule width to be the same as the leading of the text so the coloured shaded “strips” and the white gaps in-between are the same width?

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:32:41 +0000

One more trick to add to that.

Say if you were to insert a text and wanted it to apply automatically without manually putting in the paragraph styles.

Make a New Object style

Go the Paragraph Style on the left hand menu.

For Paragraph Style use the style “Shade”

And then CHECK THE BOX that says APPLY NEXT STYLE.

Automatically does the whole frame of text for you.

Of course you may not only have this list, you may have other information per text frame that you don’t want shaded, etc.

By: Candace

Candace — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:28:36 +0000

Dave, you’re a great teacher. Even though you go through things quickly your explanation is very easy to “get.” I’m new at InDesign and it’s refreshing to listen to someone who knows how to explain it to newbies. Looking forward to watching other tutorials.

By: salcuda

salcuda — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:02:35 +0000

Ottimo video corso.ok

By: DCM

DCM — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:01:24 +0000

THis is a very handy technique. I discovered this on my own a couple of years ago and have been using it regularly when designing forms etc.

By: Rüdiger Fischer

Rüdiger Fischer — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:37:43 +0000

Thank, this is verry helpful, i dont know the a rule can do this in a paragraph