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Adding rules above or below

Adding rules above or below - InDesign Tutorial

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Adding rules 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 a line tool, but you would be a lot better off using InDesign's "paragraph rules" feature. In this magazine document from my exercise files, I'm going to double click on this heading over here and zoom into 400% with command or control four. Let's add some space above and below this paragraph by switching to the paragraph formatting mode and then changing the space before to say, 10 points. Then I'll hit the tab key and type four points for space after. Now, this heading still 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 its menu. Here, we can choose "paragraph rules" way down here, or you could press the shortcut, which is command…

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