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Paragraph Syle Puzzle

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    • April 29, 2014 at 5:27 am #68186
      Kimmi Patterson
      Member

      Hi there!

      I’m hoping you all can help me solve a paragraph style puzzle—at least it is to me :)

      (Not sure how to load a screen shot, so I’ll try to describe it as best I can)

      The style is for an intro paragraph, which begins with a grey bar, followed by two orange vertical lines, and then the text, which has the first line as bold larger text. Originally, it was set up with nested styles, a line style, and an underline style for the grey bar. The designer had to type 2 tabs, the two vertical lines, and another tab at the beginning of the paragraph for it all to kick in:

      TAB TAB || TAB

      Of course, we’d much rather be able to click, style and go, so that’s my current mission!

      So far, I’ve got the vertical bars set up using the bullet option and the line style for the bold larger text, but the real challenge is that grey bar. I don’t want to use paragraph rule because then the designer can’t resize the text box. Currently I’ve got a library item set up to anchor in front of the bullet (as an object style so it drops in place and locks), but I’d still love to have it where nothing has to be typed or added.

      Any ideas?

    • April 29, 2014 at 6:41 am #68190
      Kimmi Patterson
      Member

      Here’s a screen shot:

      [img]https://www.flickr.com/photos/28002212@N06/14046768742/in/photostream/[/img]

    • April 29, 2014 at 6:47 am #68191
      Kimmi Patterson
      Member

      Argh… I guess I’ve run out of edits. I’ll be back when I figure this out :(

    • April 29, 2014 at 7:14 am #68192
      Kimmi Patterson
      Member

      OK, Forum newbie here… didn’t realize the edit button disappears after a certain amount of time and anything you post is in here seems to be for good (can’t find a way to delete my goofy posts).

      So here’s me, asking for help again, only this time on getting screen shots in here. I’ve tried a number of things and don’t want to have a bunch of weird posts in here, so can someone point me in the right direction?

      Thanks in advance :)

      • April 29, 2014 at 9:22 am #68198
        Rivkah Lewis
        Member

        I copied and pasted that image link and I saw your sample – so you’re OK as far as that goes.
        But I don’t have a grey bar solution…

    • April 29, 2014 at 10:03 am #68200
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      I can’t think of any way to avoid using a paragraph rule or anchoring like you’ve done.

      What is the reason the designer wouldn’t be able to resize the text box? It looks like you have a text inset on all four sides, so I don’t know what the problem would be.

      So far as posting images, I don’t think this forum supports embedding images.

      I’ve always just copied and pasted the direct link to my image and put that in the post. Folks will simply have to click it

    • April 29, 2014 at 10:23 am #68202
      Kimmi Patterson
      Member

      In order to get the paragraph rule to stop where we want at the beginning of the paragraph, we were using the right indent option in paragraph rules. Whenever the box was resized, it changed this space and changed the size of the grey bar.

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