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130 Make a fill in the blank label for contracts and forms

130 Make a fill in the blank label for contracts and forms - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

130 Make a fill in the blank label for contracts and forms

There are a dozen different ways to make blank lines for forms and contracts. I'm just going to show you two of my favorite methods using a feature that a lot of people don't think about for form lines. Rule above and rule below. In this document, I have a sample contract and there are two different kinds of form lines that I need to add. Down here, I want to add lines that go from the end of the word to the right side of the column. Up here though I want to add lines inside the text, inside the paragraph itself. Something that will align with the baseline of the rest of the text and will even flow with the text, if the text gets edited. Let's start down here, to add my line down here after the word Name, I'm going to double-click to switch from the Selection tool to the Type tool automatically, and place the cursor next to the word Name. Now, I'm going to go up to the right side of the control panel, all the way over here and select from the pop-menu Paragraph Rules or you could…

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