Are there better ways of doing lines for people filling out forms than a series of dots?
Dot leaders, selectable in the Tabs dialog, will at least make the dots line up for each line. Put a space before the tab and apply a smaller font size and lighter character style or font to that — the leader takes its style from the character immediately before it. Use a right aligned tab at the point where you want the line(s) to end. There have been many other suggestions to this regular question on the List, including creating a rule and pasting this as an inline graphic which can be stretched to fit, or not having lines at all, just space. The latter can also work with white boxes on a coloured or gray background, or just the equivalent of crop marks in the corners of the spaces to be filled in. If you are using leaders or rules, don’t spend too much time getting them to align at the right — put a reverse or paper box over the ends. Or have a guide there with snap-to-guides turned on. Yet another way is to use the Rules set up in Paragraph styles; these can run the width of the
