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• • April 9, 2015 at 8:56 am #74506
    Paulo

    Member

    Hi,

    I´m working on formatting a book for print and on same pages
    we´d like to have some case studies on gray boxes for emphasis.

    My question is: How do we create a colored text box that may
    continue on the other page (if needed)?

    View post on imgur.com

    By tyhe way…

    I tried and tried and could not find it so I ended up creating
    another box and splitting the text between them…

    BUT it doesn´t work well when I make changes on the text forcing me
    to go and manually update text box by text box – and every chapter
    has several of these text boxes… so it´s a pain in the you know
    what :)

    If you know how to do this more efficiently I´d appreciate your help.

  • April 9, 2015 at 9:01 am #74509
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this in InDesign. I know that Adobe is aware of it, because they have seen this:
    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/114445-adobe-indesign-wishlist/suggestions/1800505-paragraph-background-colour

  • April 9, 2015 at 9:39 am #74520
    Paulo

    Member

    THANKS David.

    I´m a bit disappointed with indesign. I´m new to indesign
    and was expecting this to be a very basic thing that ID
    would handle easily.

    Anyway, if anyone knows a way around it to accomplish
    the same goal please let me know.

    Cheers

  • April 10, 2015 at 5:57 am #74551
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    You could put all that text into a table cell and colour the cell. Or you could add a line below style to the text and edit it so it makes one box?

  • April 11, 2015 at 7:39 am #74560
    Paulo

    Member

    Thanks Salieri

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