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Adding rules and lines above or below

Adding rules and lines above or below - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding rules and lines above or below

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- [Instructor] Many designs called 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 would be a lot better off using InDesign's Paragraph Rules feature. Here, in this magazine document from my exercise files, I'm going to double click on this heading to switch to the type tool. Then I'll zoom in with a Command or Control + Two. Let's add some space above and below this paragraph by making sure the control panel is set to paragraph mode and then changing space before to say 10 points and then space after to four points. That just gives us some room to work with. Now this heading still 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 we'll head over to the right side of the control panel and open its menu. Now, let's come down here and choose paragraph rules, or you…

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