How do I draw "tramlines"

Obviously, this is a forum dedicated to Pages. You'll find some discussion on how to work with Word documents in Pages or to save/export Pages documents to Word but for help using Word you should go to Microsoft's web site. You can find help at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

That works, but the most automatic solution in Word would probably be to create a single table cell and hide the vertical borders. In that way it works even if you change font heights later on, and if the text is pushed over a page break.

You can do the same thing in Pages of course.

I try to answer this question because I think the solution is also useful in Pages.

Simply insert two lines from the Draw Toolbar (sorry, my Word is only in German, so I have to translate the menu item names). Place the lines below and above your text. After selecting one line (click on it and it will show small squares at the end), you can move it in tiny "steps" using alt (= option key) and the arrow keys.

I think this is equivalent to inserting a line from Pages' object menu. The difference is that you don't need to press alt or ctrl or some other key for finer movement.





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Don,

Hold your horses. Peggy's suggestion that you look at Microsoft's site is perfectly reasonable. If you had already looked at the site, you should have said so. Saying "I can't find the answer anywhere" doesn't necessarily mean you've checked the Microsoft site. For most people who say that in this forum, it simply means they've tried everything they can think of. Until someone comes along with a suggestion they haven't thought of. That's what Peggy was doing -- just giving you another option. If it doesn't apply to you, ignore it. But she most definitely was not being rude.

-Dennis

Even though you actually could not know that when you posted it, it turned out to be a problem which exists in both products, and where the solution is identical, so congrats! It was a valid post in the end.

I never thought about that way but it sounds to be the perfect solution. (Good that I posted my suggestion;-)

Thanks Magnus!