FrameMaker – How to Draw Lines by Default Above or Below any Header

Imagine every time you use a certain paragraph tag in FrameMaker, you’d like to draw automatically lines (single, double, etc.) above and/or below that header or piece of text.

You can do that easily by using the ADVANCED tab in PARAGRAPH DESIGNER.

Follow these steps:

(1) Open your FrameMaker document:

Let’s imagine you’d like to draw double lines whenever Header 2 paragraph tag is assigned to text.

(2) Select a Header 2 tagged text (in this case, the header “2010 TCC Review“).

(3) Launch the Paragraph Designer (Ctrl + M). Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced tab.

(4) Click and display the drop-down list for Frame Above Paragraph and/or Below Paragraph buttons:

(5) Select Double Line for both and click the Apply button. Here is the result:

(6) To make sure those lines will be drawn automatically every time you assign Header 2 tag, click the Update All button on the Advanced tab.