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New to indesign..need to put a border around text..help!

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    • April 21, 2011 at 11:54 am #59369
      amcor1
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      I am going to be publishing a newsletter in the summer and I am new to indesign. I want to put a boarder around my paragraphs. Can anyone walk me through how to do it or point me in the direction of a website to go to that has instructions for simple tasks like this?

    • April 21, 2011 at 12:55 pm #59370
      Nenad Marinkovic
      Member

      You can select text box with black arrow tool and add a stroke, then you can adjust inset spacing in text frame dialog box to move text away from border. Keep text box selected and create new object style, so you can apply all that settings quickly to any other text box.

    • April 21, 2011 at 1:39 pm #59372
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      I bet that's not what the OP had in mind, and was actually hoping for a “Border Around Any Text” tool. There is a commercial plug-in for that; it's not standard built-in into ID.

      Apart from bordering an entire text frame, you can also insert a small table into your text and use that to get borders around entire paragraphs. Anything smaller than that — say, a border around a single word or a single character — will need more than a passing knowledge of using Anchored Objects.

    • April 26, 2011 at 11:25 am #59417
      amcor1
      Participant

      Thanks..i'll see what I can do with that.

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