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Re: Newbie Question: How do you color a text frame border only?

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From: Van_Kurtz
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:20
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Steven,

Having worked with Frame for many years, I only recently figured it all out. If you select the frame and look at its object properties, you will notice a border color and border width settings, which do nothing (this always confused me) UNTIL you set the pen pattern to solid. You do the latter with the drawing tools palette. Select the text frame, open the drawing tools, and set the pen pattern to solid (black). This tool is about halfway down the left side of the tool palette, just below the fill pattern. Once you set the pen pattern to solid, you can change the border color and width either from the drawing tools palette or in the object properties dialog box.

I agree that is not as straightforward as InDesign, but this Frame's interface was built many, many years ago and has not changed.

Van
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