How to insert a vertical line next to selected text?

Thanks for the suggestions but not quite what I'm looking for. If I could post a picture I would, but I was able to did this about a year ago (when working on the same journal layout but sadly I do not have the original files). The vertical line is exactly inline with the text and spans down multiple lines. Using the character option doesn't work because it skips lines and using the Shapes option only gives a horizontal line and I can't get it to flip vertically when I insert it.

Thanks, Walt, but I tried that and for some strange reason it won't rotate it. The only way I was able to rotate it was by changing the degree of the angle but when I do that the line shortens considerably and it won't allow me to increase the length so that it spans all the lines that are in the paragraph (i.e. The line will only span two lines when there are six lines in the paragraph).

Seeing as I have tried just about everything, I am most definitely looking for solutions. Unfortunately the suggestions that I have received are not the solution. Grabbing the end and pulling it around was one of the first things I tried and the pen tool was not suggested. I'll try that but there's no need to be condescending, this is for a journal publication and I need it to look exactly the same so that means I need to look for the exact solution. Thanks.

Peter, to post a mock quote that I ignored the cell suggestion "because it just might work" is entirely condescending and not only is that condescending but you went out of your way to do exactly that. I did not intentionally ignore the cell suggestion, I just missed that suggestion when reading the post. I tried to be as clear and as accurate as possible but seeing as I am someone who is still learning all the functions of Pages, I can only explain so far as to what I am doing and there are many limitations to explaining things in a discussion board. I never mentioned Word, I did this in Pages last year and I am trying my best to replicate what I did for this year.

The cell suggestion was in fact the best option and I had tried it previously but I could not figure out how to center it, which I have now figured out how to do. So thank you for your help, but understand that sometimes people are not purposely being obtuse before making a snap judgment.

I understand, thanks 🙂