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• • January 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm #63857
    mprotz

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    I am working on a project that has a text frame with 10 columns and items in each of the columns. Is there a way to add color to the alternating columns so I don't have to add a line to seperate the column? Or do I need to turn the text frame into a table?

    thanks

  • January 4, 2013 at 2:54 pm #63858
    Bob Rubey

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    You may be limited to the table option.

    But if manually inserting column rules is putting you off, there is a handy little script for that: https://www.indiscripts.com/cat…..s/InGutter

  • January 4, 2013 at 2:57 pm #63859
    mprotz

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    Thanks for the scipt info. Manually putting them in isn't an issue but we are trying to avoid too much non information in the chart if possible, that is why we thought that a 10% colour every other column might aid.

  • January 4, 2013 at 7:59 pm #63863
    Bob Rubey

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    After playing around with this for a while, I had another idea and remembered another script, Convert Multicolumn Text Frames to Individual Text Frames: https://creativepro.com/con…..script.php

    Be sure to grab the CS5 version for CS5 and later.

    You'll be able to set up your 10 column text frame as desired, run the script to create 10 individual text frames of threaded text, then apply color to each text frame. I did notice that running the script removed any text insets and you may need to adjust for that–perhaps by adding a small stroke color matching the fill and aligned to the outside of the text box.

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