2020

BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
bottom, right, or left box frame icons to apply a border to one or more sections of
the box at a time.
Use Line Drawing Order to choose the drawing order for the borders
(Vertical/Horizontal on Top).
You can only apply different border styles to different sides of a rectangular text
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box. This feature is not available for picture boxes or text boxes of any other shape.
You can also create your own border styles in the Dashes and Stripes dialog box
(Edit menu) and specify border settings in an Item Style. For more about Item
Styles, see “
Item Styles XTensions software.”
Applying colors to boxes
To apply a background color to active boxes, do one of the following:
Display the Colors palette (Window > Colors), click the Background Color •
button , and then use the controls in the palette.
Use the controls in the Home tab of the Measurements palette. •
The controls available are as follows:
Box or Background Color: Lets you specify the background color for the box. •
Shade: Lets you specify the tint of the background color (0% = white, 100% = •
full color).
Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of the box background (0% = fully •
transparent, 100% = fully opaque).
You can also specify box color in an Item Style. For more about Item Styles, see
“
Item Styles XTensions software.”
Applying gradients to boxes
A gradient is a gradual transition from one color to another. To apply a gradient to
the background of active boxes, see Creating gradients“.
Specifying number of columns in text boxes
To specify the number of columns in a text box,
Use the Cols field and the Gutter field in the Home tab and the Text tab of the
Measurements palette to specify how many columns the text box should have and
how wide their gutters should be.
The Line Between option available in the Text tab allows you to specify that a line
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will be drawn between columns in a multi-column text box and and its height will
be equivalent to the height of the text in the column.
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