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Adding rules (lines) above or below

Adding rules (lines) above or below - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding rules (lines) above or below

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- [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 the 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 space after, 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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