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Paragraph shading and staying within the margins

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    • March 10, 2025 at 2:38 am #14412766
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      I have a paragraph with shading behind it. I want the shading to always stay within the margins of the page.
      But I also want there to always be a gap between the shading and the text.
      So I can’t use “clip to frame” or I lose that.
      I feel like there must be a workaround.
      Any ideas?
      TIA!

    • March 10, 2025 at 2:44 am #14412768
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      You should use ‘left indent’ and ‘right indent’.

    • March 10, 2025 at 2:45 am #14412769
      Steve Davis
      Participant

      Share a screenshot please.

    • March 10, 2025 at 2:46 am #14412770
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      @Petar Sorry I should have specified – left and right are fine.
      I mean the top and bottom.

      @Steve Davis – what’s the easiest way of sharing a screenshot here?

    • March 10, 2025 at 2:49 am #14412772
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      In that case, I use top and bottom margins slightly bigger throughout the book.

    • March 10, 2025 at 4:26 pm #14412773
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      But that would only work when its the only thing on the page. Not if it comes after a different style.

      https://snipboard.io/EOANac.jpg
      https://snipboard.io/BwhSTr.jpg

    • March 10, 2025 at 5:51 pm #14412847
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      That’s interesting… tricky… I think what you’re looking for is the equivalent of the “Keep in Frame” feature you can get with Rule Above or Rule Below. The Shading feature doesn’t offer that.

      I’d say put it in a table cell, but that won’t break across pages, of course.

      Hm…

    • March 11, 2025 at 12:01 am #14412848
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      Right, the cell wouldn’t work for this project.
      To me it seems so intuitive that people would want this option!
      Any other creative solutions aside from moving each text box with a shaded box down so the color starts in the right place – something I really don’t want to do!

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