I did try it and it does work. However, the one extra step that you’d probably want to do is to group the strokeless frame with your new top/bottom borders.

At least the way I did it, you can’t put text in the new bordered box even though InDesign shows the Content as Text.

But if I group the two together, I can place the text inside the unbordered text frame while getting the advantage of having the top/bottom bordered frame.

Thanks for the tip.

Interesting!

You’d have to fake it!

Select the top of the Stroked Frame with the Direct Selection, and shift-click on the bottom segment. Go to Edit>Copy. Remove the Stroke from your original Frame in the Swatches panel. Then go to Edit Paste in Place to paste the top and bottom Stroked segments right in front of the original “strokeless” image.

It works! Give it try.

Jeff Witchel

Glad you like the tutorial.

I’m afraid that the illustration used for the tutorial is not available. It’s an original piece of art that I drew over 13 years ago in Illustrator.

Jeff Witchel

I thought maybe the scissor trick you demonstrated might work in this case. And you can cut out another piece, but then it is no longer a rectangle… it’s two separate pieces.

So my question is, how can you delete two sides of a rectangle without affecting the content inside and keeping ? For example, you might want a call-out in a magazine where there’s a bar across the top and bottom, but not the sides.

You could do this with a single-cell table and just turn off the side strokes, but I’d like to be able to do this with a normal text box.