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underline sentence(s) to create a block??

Jun 8, 2012 10:00 AM

Hi, I have some text which at the moment has an underline with a thick weight to allow a colour block behind. The block of colour starts on the left quite close to the text. I was wondering if its somehow possible to offset the block slightly left to allow a little extra, or, is there another way to have text flow in with a block behind a sentence.

 

Settings:

Underline On

weight 34pt

Offset -12

 

Indesign CS5.5

 

 

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316 Views   1 Reply   Latest reply: Peter Spier, Jun 8, 2012 10:20 AM
 
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    1. Peter Spier,
    Jun 8, 2012 10:20 AM   in reply to lister110@hotmail.com
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    If you want a full rectangular block you can use a paragraph rule and adjust the indent (negative values are allowed) but you need to adjust the rule weight to match the line count for each paragraph.

     

    Other options, again for a full rectangle block, are to use a single-cell table or an anchored text frame with a fill and some inset. Neither of these two optiions can break across a column or page, however. If it needs to break, rule above and rule below together will work.

     
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