Hi David,

Thanks for your response.

So, when I delete the unneeded left-hand page, I’d like the following pages to retain their layout. What seems to be happening is that Indesign reapplies the master pages to all the pages following the one I deleted. Is there a way to prevent this?

Another problem: the running heads (author name/page number) are set symmetrically on the spread, i.e. the page number is in the top left-hand corner of the left page and in top the right-hand corner of right page. Author names are in the top right-hand corner of the left page and the top left-hand corner of the right page. When a left page becomes a right page (or vice versa) I’d like these to switch according to the design.

Is this clear? As you imply, I suspect there are things I should have done differently in setting up the document/design, but I’m not sure what that would have been nor how to solve it now…

Thanks,

Paul

Thank you very much, David.

Unfortunately, however, I don’t think this will work (anchoring the rule to the last character in the story): sometimes the text flows across two or more text boxes/pages and I want the rule beneath all of the text boxes, not only the last in the story.

Perhaps Niels’ solution is the best work-around?

Thanks,

Phil

Thank you, David. That’s perfect.

Thank you, Niels, that’s quite a next solution. However, sometimes I have a second text box (when the text is in two languages) ranging upwards from the bottom of the page (in which case the shifting rule has to run along the top of the text box). These not infrequent exceptions would, I think, make your solution rather difficult to set up.

Dirk: Thanks. I had thought of that, but there are instances when the text runs over several pages, in which case your solution wouldn’t work – or at least be a hassle to implement.

Seems strange that there’s not an equivalent of a Paragraph Rule for objects.

Any other thoughts?

I really appreciate the help.

Paul