hi there in this video we're going to look at creating dotted lines and dashed lines, perforation lines, we're going to do wavy lines and stripey lines and all sorts of lines. So let's go and do that now. Alright, so to put the border around the outside, we're going to start with a rectangle. So the rectangle tool, not the rectangle frame tool. Okay. The rectangle tool and what I'd like to do is you saw earlier that I had it kind of like perfectly away from the edge. Now what I can do is I can draw it exactly the right size, remember? And that is actually the edge of the page. This bit on the outside here is the bleed, remember. Okay, so I'm going to draw out the actual size. Okay, my half letter. Okay, so it's a nice big rectangle now we've gotta fill of green and a stroke of nothing. So what I would like to do actually, I'll leave it there for the moment just while we're practicing this because if I grab my selection tool and I try and scale it down proportionately. What are the keys...

That's right. Command and shift on a Mac and control and shift on a Pc if I hold them down right and make them proportionately smaller. Okay, you'll notice that if I put it here in the middle is actually kind of it doesn't scale the way we want, we want equal distances around the outsides. If I scale it down even more, you can see it's a lot bigger on the size than it is in the top and the bottom just because it's scaling that way. So what I'd like to do is I'm going to undo. So it actually fills the outside and what we can do, you can see at the top here it's got a width and height, it's perfect. Okay. Matches my half letter, what I can do here is some basic math. Okay, these little boxes, any of these little white boxes, you can do some little methane which is really handy. So in here I can go minus and I'm going to turn half an inch. Okay, it's a .5. You'll see it just sucked it in half. Yeah, half an inch to the same in here minus 0.5. You can do times okay if I did times two. Okay, so it'll be times two inches. It's that little asterix Okay, And it's a whole lot taller than it needs to be. I'm going to do. Um so I'm going to go minus 0. minus plus, all that sort of stuff works. And to get it in the middle you could use your line tools, there's mine at the top here or there was a panel that we saw earlier but actually it's just easier to grab your black arrow, click hold and you'll notice that it just kind of snaps, you see those two purple pinkie lines, just kind of like saying, hey, there's the middle and you'll see visually it looks like it's in the middle. So it's actually 0.5 half an inch from all the sides and it looks nice and perfect. So now to make the line dotted. Okay so we're gonna give it um no fill so click on my field. I'm going to get a nun and this one here the striker on the outside. I'm gonna make it white paper. Okay and this is the stroke here. Okay, how thick it is at the moment It's one point. It's probably what I want. But let's make it nice and big just as an example so we can all see what we're doing to bump it up to four points and now we need to find our stroke panel. If you can't find it mines there. Hello there. But if you can't find yours go to window, go down to stroke and turn it on. Now yours might look a little different as well. Yours might be. There's a little flat men knew that says hi options and if yours looks like mine, you've got really basic control. Click on this option and say show options the big ugly version with all the details that we need and the one we need the moment is type Okay that's gonna allow us to change it from a solid line. Like we know it to all these other options. There's some weird ones. Okay. The ones that I've never used thick thin, you might like them. Okay. White diamond never used dotted lines and dashed lines are the ones that we're going to look at the moment and there's two kinds of dotted. Okay, there's dotted and some reason the japanese like their dots a little bit closer together. Okay, japanese thing. Not sure. But um okay, so there's my dots around the outside. If you want a dashed, okay, there's dashed, there's a ugly squirrely line, you might like the squirrely line, right, hash there's some weird things in there. Okay, But we're going to go to dotted and we're gonna put the size down. Okay. To something I don't know, I'm putting two points. Um dash lines now. You might use dash lines as a visual thing like I'm doing here. There's nothing this dotted lines just for for pretty sake. Okay, what we're gonna do is maybe it's a snip here, you know the scissors, like cut this bit off for the redeem your coupon. Okay, what you can do is instead of doing it for this rectangle, you can do the exact same tricks with just a straight line. Okay, the straight line here, I can draw. Okay. And what I might do actually is draw it straight up and down if you want to draw a line straight up and down. It's the similar technique we did when we made a rectangle. Sorry circle. Remember we held on shift and it was a perfect circle. That same technique makes it a perfect line. So hold down shift before I start dragging it out. You can see it kind of really wants to go up straight up and down so so that's gonna be my perforation line where I want people to snip it off. It's got a fill. A lion can have a fill. Okay And the line around the outside is going to be white. Okay I'm going to make it two points just so you can see it and then you can see the exact same controls. Hey somebody's calling. Okay let's go to dash lines. Dash. Alright I'm gonna pause there. Go check the phone. I'll be right back. Alright so I'm back and the started line here. Kay this dash line sorry I don't need it. So I've selected with my black arrow and just hit delete on my keyboard. Just tap the key on the keyboard and it's gone. Alright. Dash lines, dotted lines, wavy lines, curly lines, all of that. Okay let's move on to our next video

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How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

Lesson Info

13. How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

Lessons

InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction

Exercise files & Projects

What Does Adobe InDesign do?

What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?

How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?

New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?

How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign

How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?

How to color the background of a page in InDesign?

Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign

How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign

How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign

How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign

How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign

How to make a simple PDF from InDesign

How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG

Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?

How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document

Class Exercise 1

Quiz - One Page Flyer

Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates

Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images

How to find missing fonts in InDesign?

How to replace images in InDesign?

Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign

Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'

What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?

Quiz - Other people's files

Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign

How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign

How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file

Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign

Production Video 1

What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel

How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign

What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?

How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign

Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.

How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign

Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting

Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign

How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?

What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?

How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?

How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?

How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.

Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?

InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread

Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure

How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once

How do I import paragraph styles from another document

How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign

How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign

Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign

Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign

How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?

How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap

How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning

How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap

Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?

How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign

How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping

What is Adobe Stock

Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business

How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?

How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?

How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign

How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?

How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?

How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?

How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?

Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?

Quiz - Long Business Document