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Does the span column feature in InD 6 allow for custom column widths?

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    • October 16, 2012 at 12:16 pm #63378
      lynnlheureux
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      I think the answer is no. If that's confirmed, I'm hoping someone in the community can help.

      I have a book whose design utilizes heads on the left and body text on the right. Currently, the template uses separate anchored text boxes to fit the heads in a 1-inch space on the left and tabs to flow the body on the right. There has to be a better way!

      I thought I could use the span column feature and adjust the columns to different widths, but it doesn't appear you can do that. I don't want to resort to tables, which would be too cumbersome in a large book, nor do I want to deal with tabs.

      Does anyone have any other ideas? Any help would be appreciated!

      Lynn

    • October 18, 2012 at 9:39 am #63397
      David Blatner
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      Unfortunately, no… the anchored object method is one of the better ways to accomplish this, sadly.

    • October 19, 2012 at 12:52 am #63401
      Tim Hughes
      Member

      It may not be practical in your case but I have done this in the past by using one text box and an indent on the body text, no extracting heads required.

    • October 22, 2012 at 6:58 am #63421
      lynnlheureux
      Member

      David and Tim, thank you for your replies. I'll go the route Tim mentioned. Coincidentally, this project is a conversion from FrameMaker, which easily allowed for sideheads. It's a useful feature so hopefully someday Adobe will implement in InDesign. Thanks again!

      Lynn

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