I have considered this approach, but, eventually the InDesign layout is getting exported to HTML and an ePub and I would rather export these paragraph styles out to a div tag rather than a table tag.

Is that the only solution?

Do you know if there is a way to do something as explained in the "UPDATE:..." section above?

Is what I have explained in the "UPDATE:..." section above do-able? or do you not know?

Oh I am trying to do it myself, but not succeeding as yet. I was asking, as if you knew the answer as being no, then I wouldnt waste my time trying, dont expect you to try things out for me if you dont already know.

Tables instead of seperate frames is a possible solution (thanks for that answer) to this but use of seperate frames would be alot better if I can get a solution to editors working with them easier.

The creation of text is not a problem. An editor can put text into their incopy doc and give it a para style and that comes into the layout file fine, it's the wrapping of that text in a frame  to give the visual style seen in the screenshot above that I am trying to achieve via incopy.

True. But when all I am trying to achieve is a border around a paragraph, use of a table seems overkill to me. But if thats the only solution I have so far then I will have to go down that route.

It would be useful to have an object libraries panel in InCopy so that editors can drag across predefined text frames into their doc via InCopy, but I cant see that option in InCopy. is there one? I have also thought about exporting the frames as seperate InDesign Snippets and saving them to an objects folder, then when an editor needs to insert one into their doc they simply use File > Place > "Choose required text frame snippet". However I have found that InCopy can't place InDesign snippets so that theory was a failure. Is there another format I could use to save the objects and bring them into InCopy? List below shows my findings so far for trying to save/export a text frame from InDesign and then import into InCopy:

• InDesign Snippet (.idms) - can't import into InCopy
• InDesign Document (.indd) - imports content as an image - only editable in InDesign
• InDesign Template (.indt) - imports content as an image - only editable in InDesign
• InDesign Library (.indl) - can't import into InCopy - no panel available in InCopy for object libraries (that I can see...)
• InCopy Markup (.icml) - only imports the text, loses the text frame

Do you mean convert the table to text just before performing the export to ePub? So that I only end up exporting a paragraph? That would work, but if I have 500 of these tables in a document to convert to text before exporting it becomes too time consuming on the workflow and prone to human error. Unless there is a mass option to "convert all tables of style 'X' to text" ?

Leaving the table alone and exporting as it is, is a possibility, as i've said previously, but that gives unecessary HTML markup in the exported ePub.

If I decide to go down that route then i'll peruse the scripting forum for some advice on getting a script to do that. Thanks for your input.