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Hi There,
I'm a total newbie to InDesign and I'm stuck working on someone else's file and I am totally confused.
I have to remove a listing from from the file and every time I delete the listing (In this example "Magnets" in example_1.png) the text moves up but the red square remains at its current location (see example_2.png) Is there a way to get the red square to move up as well. I'm not sure how this list is set up.
Any help would be extremly helpful!
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Hi @albert_0922 and welcome!
Manually, based on screen shot. You could continue manually—drag the red box up to the new location for now. Then when you are ready, you can learn other ways to approach this: anchor the boxes so that they move with the edits, or even better design them as a custom underline that always moves with the edits. I'll be back with an example in just a sec.
~Barb
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Have you looked at the Layers panel? Objects are often on layers.
Have you looked in the Pages panel at the Parent pages (which act like templates in a way)? Objects might be on the Parent Page.
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Ok, I'm back!
InDesign has a substantial learning curve—investing in training is well worth your time. This demo shows an intermediate-level approach to setting up the boxes (there are more advanced ways) but I recorded it to give you an example of how to design boxes to move with the edits. I'm using a an underline that I made thicker, magenta and then adjusted the position vertically. To get spaces on the left and right, I added Thin Spaces. Once I tested it, I saved it as a character style so that I could easily assign it wherever I needed it.
As a career InDesign trainer, I know that trying to use InDesign without training is overwhelming and you are likely on deadline. You may be tempted to try to redesign the file immediately but this is a situation where you might want to continue with the manual edits to meet the deadline, then step away and learn InDesign basics (include paragraph and character styles) and then come back to see how you could do this more efficiently.
~Barb
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Hi Barb!
Thanks so much for this! I really appreciate your taking the time to help!
-A
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