InDesign: How to Span and Split Text Across Columns (Video Tutorial)

[@jenniferkeith1]

Thank you so much for this. Saved my whole big project.

[@AhmadAteek]

Very important tutorial, Thank you!

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much, Bart!

[@thespecialguy]

Very helpful tutorial, thanks for sharing

[@easydaisydrawing5729]

Oh my God, the InDesign have these fantastic functions and I spent huge time to do these all functions in one book. 😅

[@Rio-by1eh]

Guilty as charged …I’ve been doing monthly magazines and ignorant of the nifties hidden inside the InDesign

[@ವಿಜಯೀಂದ್ರ]

this is so very useful. thanks a ton

[@SumeragiMinami]

Thanks! Never know this feature exists.

[@DesignDomination]

One of my fave features!

[@ZoranImsiragic]

I use this a lot! I was waiting for span option since I switched from Xerox Ventura Publisher to QuarkXPress and later to InDesign. Small trick I use is when I have a multy column text which I'd like to be even on the end. I make one more empty paragraph on the end of story and give it Span All and I have an even text across columns.

[@CreativePro]

Clever!

[@mitchelmompremier9251]

Thank you very much

[@serenagrandolfo]

Thanks, very helpful. How do you add the line divider below the heading? Is it an object style? Thanks!

[@CreativePro]

You can set a paragraph rules as part of your header style. -EG

[@ThiagoPereira-le5pp]

Amazing! I love InDesign ❤

[@mortezafarhoudi]

Thank you so much for this concise and informative video. 🙏

[@broadmeadcare]

So good! Thanks!

[@AllesKiten]

Amazing!

[@alvarocarrilho]

I though I got it!... but Bart Van de Wiele use de eyedropper tool (and the menu in contextual tools) ... and I just realized that I was being schooled. Cheers, from Lisbon- Portugal

[@nancypalm]

How do you break up the columns so you can adjust them individually? Thanks!

[@CreativePro]

To have the columns moved differently in headers than in the body, you would need separate text frames. The columns are a property of the frame (as opposed to text). -EG

[@vlogmedia793]

Thanks 💚😍

[@kwabenaagyekumhene1943]

really cool!

[@HowieD1975]

I no longer have the option shown at the top to add columns. I am using InDesign 18.5 It used to be shown at the top… how can I get that back to show at top?

[@CreativePro]

Either a change was made with 18.5, or it’s a bug, or it can’t display it based on the width and resolution of your display. Click the gear to choose what does and doesn’t show up in the control panel. -EG

[@Rio-by1eh]

Amazing…

[@wilddestroyer8927]

How do you only show full words, instead of it spliting the word with a line then showing the rest the line underneath.

[@CreativePro]

Are you talking about hyphenation? If so, toggle it on and off in the Paragraph panel (checkbox at the bottom). You can set more hyph settings by choosing it from the Paragraph panel menu. -EG

[@wilddestroyer8927]

@CreativePro yah I figured it out but thanks for the reply

[@Graphicode99]

Split but here the problem 😂 is , odd rows become adjacent to even rows, how to make it the other way around?

[@UncommonSense1776]

Who knew..... I could have used this on a number of locations.

[@alfredog.g.7281]

👍👍

[@Graphicode99]

How to split in manner (a). (B) (C). (D) Instead of (A) (c) (B). (D) Hope you understand my problem 😢😢