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I would like to find a good way to create many ‘info-box/call-outs’ in Publisher, as shown in my attached example. I will have dozens of these in the document so I want to try and make it as easy as possible for me to create and manipulate them. The top example is paragraph-formatted - the outline box is done with paragraph decorations - and the pictograph is just an SVG float-pinned to the text. The bottom example is an inline-pinned 2-column text frame where the pictograph is a font glyph. My requirements are: The pictograph will be different in many instances of the info-boxes so should be easily changed in individual instances. The pictograph should automatically move with the paragraph and keep its place relative to the text. The pictograph would ideally be automatically vertically-centred within the box, because the amount of text isn’t known ahead of time and can be changed at any time. The pictograph can be SVG or a font, I’m not bothered which. I tried using a bullet but I don’t have enough control over the placement of the pictograph (bullet is always aligned with the first line of text). A drop-cap won’t give me what I need (as far as I can tell). Using a float-pinned SVG (top example) I can manually re-position the SVG as needed but I would prefer not to have to. Using an inline-pinned text frame has its own problems when it comes to text flow (see attached GIF), actually they both seem to have issues with text flow (see where the hand icon moves to relative to the box when it goes to the next frame). So, I’m wondering if anyone has any good suggestions. I’m only in the initial stages of creating my document so this is not urgent but I would like to have something set-up before I start to really get into it.