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Adding rules (lines) above or below - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2021 Essential Training
Adding rules (lines) above or below
- [Instructor] Many designs call for a line, also called a rule, to sit above or below a paragraph, especially a heading. And you could spend all day drawing lines with a line tool, but you'd be a lot better off using InDesign's paragraph rules. In this magazine document from my exercise files, I'm going to select this heading, and zoom in to 400%, by pressing command four or control four on Windows. Now let's add some space above and below this in the control panel by going to the paragraph controls, and then changing space above to, say, 10 points, and a space after is four points. That just gives ourselves some room to work with. Now this heading looks kind of dull. I want my eye to be more drawn to it, so I'm going to put a rule above it. To do that, let's head over to the right side of the control panel, and open the control panel menu. Here, we're going to choose "Paragraph Rules", or you could type command…
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Applying advanced character formatting3m 49s
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Using Find/Replace Font4m 21s
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Applying formatting to a paragraph3m 51s
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Using drop caps2m 9s
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Adding rules (lines) above or below3m 7s
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Setting tabs and tab stops4m 4s
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Spanning and splitting paragraphs3m 23s
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Adding automatic bullets and numbers5m 10s
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Using Find/Change for text formatting3m 50s
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Highlighting paragraphs with boxes3m 39s
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