: How do you make a justified background color for a paragraph style in InDesign? In InDesign if I have a paragraph style and every time I use that style I want a "colored" box behind it justified

@Alves566

As of InDesign CC2015 a new feature was released called Paragraph Shading to address this very topic.

For basic usage you can click the Shading button on your Paragraph Formatting area:



You can also have some control over this through Paragraph Styles:

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@Smith574

If you are wanting to do this automatically and have InDesign CS6+ the only alternative is to create a script to achieve what you want.

If you're on a Mac you could always use AppleScript to record what you're doing and modify it accordingly to apply to every object in your project. So this would extend further on Marcoslhc's answer.

If you're not on a Mac you can create the script in JavaScript which could run on either Mac or PC. When I have time I will try to write the code out for you.

Documentation on Scripting

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@Rambettina927

The column part is in the Rules section, not in the Underline Section.

I'm not sure the Underline option will achieve what you are looking for if the paragraphs you are styling are going to have different line counts/heights.

It would however work really well if you are going to use it for headers with one or two lines. You can just set up specific style sheets for each case.

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@Correia448

I think the best way of doing so is coloring the text box, set the paddings and then create an object style. In the object style you can configure the default paragraph style to use.

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