Reply To: Confused about InDesign Baseline Grid

So that was basically the answer I was looking for, that it’s not a necessity to align to the baseline grid. Thank you for that. I looked at David’s Real World InDesign and came across this statement of his, “When you have more than one column of text on a page, it’s important that the baselines of the text line up across the columns,” the key part of that for me being, ‘when you have more than one column,’ I don’t, just one text frame.

“The secret is keeping everything on even lines. Let’s say your leading is 14 point leading. You want spacing to equal 14.
For example, my main head needs space above and below. I might add 10 points above and 4 points below. That equals 14. That way the text following is on even lines. The head itself won’t be, but the text following will be.” I ‘kind of’ understand what you mean here, but being a novice this is all kind of confusing. When you say your main head, what do you mean exactly? Sorry for my ignorance.