X-POST Anyone here good with InDesign? Specifically text boxes?

I am working on a fill-in keepsake book that has many pages of prompts followed by journal lines.

Example:

The best part of the trip was_______________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Some of the new friends we met ___________________________________
___________________________________________________________________



I know there is a way to create the text box so the lines fill-in around the text and look nice and even, but can't seem to find it in the help or manual. Anyone know? Thanks!

There is sure to be a different method, but one down-and-dirty thing I have done in the past is through the Tabs palette:

Once you have keyed all the type you need into your text box (including blank lines where needed), select all text as I have shown in my JPG below.

Then create a Right Justified tab near the far end of your text box as shown in my example. In the Leader box type an underscore _ and it will fill the blank sections of the tab with the underscore.

Finally, just enter a Tab after each line of type and at the beginning of each blank line and your text box should look like my example.



Like I said, I'm sure there is a more efficient method, but this will do the trick in a pinch!

Hope that helps.

Go a step further and make it part of a Paragraph Style.

I will have the style set. Because I know I'll forget again.

I've been working in InDesign since it launched, but my work never really calls for a lot of that sort of type-specific thing. I always assumed I was whipping that together meatball-surgery-style.

Glad to know I was right. :)

I work in InDesign so infrequently these days that I forget how to do everything in between projects. It sucks getting old.

:hi:

It looks like I put in an indent or a tab or single space in front of all the lines without text. And I didn't, but I can't figure out the problem. Such a stupid thing to be taking up so much of my time.

If you look in the JPG example I posted you will see that there are two tiny triangles, one on top of the other, above the 0 in the ruler. Make sure those are both all the way to the left. If not, that might be what is causing your problem.

didn't feel like working. I closed the file, reopened it, and it was feeling better. :eyes:

Thanks! :hi: