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sreekarthikeyank
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July 17, 2019
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vertical Rule

  • July 17, 2019
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How to add vertical rule to paragraphs. Is there any options in the style to separate the columns. I tried like below and its creating rule in other end

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    Correct answer Laubender

    Hi sreekarthikeyank ,

    currently, InDesign CC 2019, you could fake this with Paragraph Shading. Not with Paragraph Rules.

    Key feature of paragraph shading: Crop at frame edges.

    From my German InDesign:

    Downside of this trick:

    If you change the width of the columns you have to start over calculating start and stop, means: left and right offset.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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    LaubenderCorrect answer
    Braniac
    July 17, 2019

    Hi sreekarthikeyank ,

    currently, InDesign CC 2019, you could fake this with Paragraph Shading. Not with Paragraph Rules.

    Key feature of paragraph shading: Crop at frame edges.

    From my German InDesign:

    Downside of this trick:

    If you change the width of the columns you have to start over calculating start and stop, means: left and right offset.

    Regards,
    Uwe

    Braniac
    July 17, 2019

    FWIW: The script InGutter by Marc Autret should work as well:

    Indiscripts :: Getting Started with InGutter 2 for InDesign CS4-CC [UPDATE]

    Regards,

    Uwe

    DSant
    New Participant
    February 6, 2020

    this has been solved. InDesign now has this feature in Text Frame Options and it's called Column Rules.  I'm using version 15.0.1 on a PC.

    vladan saveljic
    Inspiring
    July 17, 2019

    Adobe has started to work on this feature.

    Take a look here

    Vertical lines between text frame columns – Adobe InDesign Feedback