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Create unequal column widths

When you have more than one column on a page, the column guides in the middle appear in pairs. When you drag one column guide, the pair moves. The space between the column guides is the gutter value you specified; the pair moves together to maintain that value.

Note: You cannot create unequal column widths for columns in a text frame. Instead, created threaded, side-by-side text frames with different column widths.
  1. Go to the master or spread you want to change.
  2. If column guides are locked, choose View > Grids & Guides > Lock Column Guides to deselect it.
  3. Using the Selection tool , drag a column guide. You can’t drag it past an adjacent column guide or beyond the edge of the page.
Dragging a column guide to create unequal column widths

To create columns with unequal gutters, create evenly spaced ruler guides and then drag individual guides to the desired location. (See Create ruler guides.)

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No screen name said on Sep 26, 2008 at 11:37 AM :
I would like to be able to set up master pages with asymmetrical column
guides -- for example, build a document with a narrow outer column and
wider column in the interior.

this is the underlying structure for a number of graphic design projects, but in
order to do it you don't get to build in column guides from the outset.

is this an option in indesign CS3? if it is, i can't figure out how to do it.
Bob Bringhurst - Adobe said on Sep 26, 2008 at 2:39 PM :
Since columns in a text frame must be the same width, your best bet is to add two different text frames to the master page, and thread them together.
No screen name said on Sep 26, 2008 at 4:29 PM :
My suggestion / question is about the guides, not the actual text frames. I
understand how to do what I want design-wise, but I would like for the
document setup and margins and guides settings to be more flexible and to
reflect real-world design thinking and asymmetrical grids.
No screen name said on Sep 29, 2008 at 6:46 AM :
oh, wait, it IS there -- now i feel so silly. but i'm so glad to have FINALLY
figured it out.

 

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