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Paragraph Borders InDesign CC 2018

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January 4, 2018
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Hey all!

I've got a paragraph style set to have a border on the left side and it's offset on top and bottom so that the line appears to be continuous for a certain section of paragraphs. Is there any way to have it not offset on the top when continuing onto a new page (i.e. new frame)? I see a "clip to frame" option for paragraph shading, but not paragraph border.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

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Correct answer RaizelDesign

RaizelDesign wrote
How exactly would I go about putting in a request for this?

I think this was posted earlier, but here is again:

Adobe InDesign Feedback

Post the link so we can go back and vote for it!

Thanks!

Here it is:

Paragraph Border Controls when Split across Columns or Frames – Adobe InDesign Feedback

Raphaël Freeman

Known Participant

I have the same problem too with borders and the March update doesn’t help. Actually in the case of the OP, there is a better solution – which only works in the case of the OP – you can use paragraph shading! Make the shading a narrow box on the left of the text and then you can do it.

However, the problem below cannot be fixed. On the top of the verso I have used the paragraph shading trick, but on the bottom of the verson and the top of the recto there is still no good solution. Yes a white box would help and honestly, never thought of that, so thank you, but REALLY – let's still an anchored white box to cut off the boxes?

Does Adobe not think things through till the end?

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Laubender

Community Expert

… Does Adobe not think things through till the end?

Hi Raphaël,

I made a recommendation and a feature request in that direction.
Not only a checkbox like [ ] Cut To Frame is needed. It would require some more control.

Maybe a "Cut to baseline" plus an edit field to add a value in minus and plus direction.

Regards,
Uwe

Raphaël Freeman

Known Participant

yes I saw and I added my vote too!

Barb Binder

Community Expert

And you may be gone for the day by now, RaizelDesign, leaving Uwe and I to talk amongst ourselves () but if the goal is change bars, you might add that as the feature request. FrameMaker (Adobe's other page layout program) has them—you can turn them on so they appear automatically when you edit a paragraph or on by paragraph tag.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Anonymous

Is it this what you want to achieve?

It's done with Offset "Bottom" only and "Bottom Edge": Standard.

If not, show a screenshot, where we can see what you want.

Fenja

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RaizelDesignAuthor

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Thanks, BarbBinder and fenjas29325284 I can't share a screenshot of the actual file right now - I don't have access to it right now. This is basically what I've got. There are different style paragraphs that all need to be part of one section (There are actually four, and one of them has paragraph shading applied and much more space before and after). It's a long, complicated book, part textbook, part workbook, with many styles of paragraphs all set into a single story. There's a new frame on each page.

Thanks for the help!