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046 Ensuring the first line of every chapter starts in the same spot

046 Ensuring the first line of every chapter starts in the same spot - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

046 Ensuring the first line of every chapter starts in the same spot

Here's a chapter opener for this book. You can see that there's a chapter number, the title, and the first line starts right here. Now I am going to jump forward a couple of spreads by pressing Option+Page Down or Alt+Page Down, and we can see the second chapter starts here. There is a chapter number, the title, and the first line of the first paragraph starts down here. There it's not the same as here, they have actually moved. Why? Because this chapter title has two lines instead of one. Now that might not bother you, but many designers want the first line of every chapter to show up at exactly the same place vertically on the page. Now you could accomplish that by creating two or more text frames on the page I suppose, but that might cause problems later if the text reflows. So instead, I am going to show you trick that I learned from Rufus Deuchler, good friend and colleague. He is now at Adobe as one of their Senior Evangelists. And this is a great use of the lock to baseline…

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