Thank you. The forum has been helpful in the past with certain layout operations, and I thought that someone might have encountered this problem in the past. Adobe did what they could. I may need to set aside some tech-fear issues and see what I can do about an across-the-board up-grade of systems and software. The older I get, it seems, the steeper the learning curve. I have been plodding along, happy not to spend time learning much new, as I try to remember what I once knew. A friend in NYC asked me to take his Audi so he wouldn't have to spend $400 in long term parking. I couldn't figure out how to change the station on the radio. Thanks again. ... View more

Reply to all of you who have helped thus far: Thanks so much, I'll work on this tomorrow. I have to go make hay. Literally. It's going to rain here tomorrow, and we have another field that was cut two days ago that needs to be flipped, raked, baled, and get into the barn today. ... View more

jmlevy, I had turned off 'view baseline grid' last night when making changes. Here is a screen shot of the same spread with document grid turned off and the baseline turned on. ... View more

Jongware, Thanks for the advice. I did think of creating distinct text frames for each inserted element. I was trying to avoid that because the layout is virtually finished and I would, to degree, need to start over just to fix this alignment issue. If I have to I will, but I wasn't sure if I could then apply the baseline grid to the main body text for those spreads where the main body text (paragraph style: main body paragraph) runs across the bottom of the spread. In other words, can I apply the baseline grid to each full page text frame if there is another text frame inserted within, say the center, of that full page text frame? If I assign a unique baseline grid for the inserted text frame, will the over-all full page frame retain it's own baselne, or will I still need to adjust 'space before/space after elements to align the bottom line? Thanks ... View more

Jane-E, Thanks for the response. Please see the response I sent to Derek above. With respect to your questions: My leading is set to: 15pt.; Align to Grid is set to: 'all lines'; and Increment is set to 15p The problem manifests due to the multiplicity of fonts employed for the elements interspersed within the 'main body text'. In order to have these elements (some hand-written fonts, some typewriter fonts, some email fonts) appear somewhat authentic, their internal leading needed to be something other than 15pt. Combine that with the fact they are of unique and different sizes anyway, that throws the main body text 'out of sequence', so to speak.  ... View more

Derek, Thank you for the reply. The book is to be printed by a small publishing house in Oxford.  Around 100 pre-sold limited/library editions - leather bound, gilt edges etc.; small run of first editions - dust jacket etc.). I knew I would give it a day or two to see if anyone could help, so yesterday I went through all approx. 300 pages. Those spreads that are only 'main body text' or spreads that contain elements that I can set leading to match the 'main body text' (15pt.) were fine. I went ahead and hand-set the 'space before' in the paragraph palette on any spreads where I needed to adjust the last line to the bottom margin baseline across the spread. The screen shot below shows a spread where I think I used this method. Baseline grid was turned off.  As I said, with all the various fonts, sizes etc. I was not sure if there was a way to automatically have the last line always align across the spread, rather than to do it by hand - where I am still not sure if the lines align perfectly. Thanks for your interest. btw:  If you promise not to laugh...I am running InDesign CS3 (It's been a while since I needed it, and never bothered to upgrade) and I am running Mac OS X 10.8.5 - like my computers and software...I am old. ... View more