Reply To: Column Rule in Table

I sure hope all you geniuses can help me.

The following screenshot is of a table I created for a book I will be be doing. There are gonna be hundreds of them. It's a cookbook and the ingredients are all double-column in a shaded box. My problem is the dotted line in between the two columns. I need them to extend to the top and bottom edges of the shaded box. I figured out out a way to trick ID into making the corners rounded, but I can’t find a way to extend those dotted rules in between the columns to the top and bottom edges. I used ID's table feature to put in the column rule.

The designer just simply slapped a shaded box over it and drew in the white dotted line, but I know I can't do it that way. It would take forever to page it that way and would be a nightmare when there is reflow in 2nd pass.

Any ideas? If it’s something simple, I’m gonna kick myself in the butt…

And to reiterate–I have it set up as an in-line table.

Thanks in advance.

Here's the snapshot:

NOTE: The rule in question is the white one in the shaded box, not the dotted rule on the right. That dotted rule is on master pages and runs the entire height of the page and and is not relevant.