Need Help With Creating Repeating Lines Using Affinity Publisher

[DianeF]

I am trying to create some lined paper where the lines are in landscape orientation. I have created a custom sized page and set up a grid and guidelines. I want to have two columns of lines with a deeper space at the top of the page for a heading and a white space in between these columns.

I have read several tutorials on this topic where the suggestion is to create two lines of the proper length, at the proper distance apart, then to select them and hit Command J to repeat these lines across the page. When I do this, the lines seem to stack up on each other and not move. If I try to drag them across the page, they don't always move the proper distance even though I have created a grid and enabled the Snap tool. Since I'm creating narrow lines, it's very time consuming to create the lines and space them. The command for vertically spacing the lines an equal distance apart also seems not to be working. I've set this project up in Affinity Publisher (V2.2.1) so that I can have a master page and be able to create subsequent pages of the same type.

It's clear I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out what. I'd be grateful for some help on how to create the lines I need for my project.

Thanks in advance.

[MikeTO]

Hi Diane. Choose Duplicate and drag the lines to where you want the first copy of the original. Then each use of Duplicate will offset the next copy the same amount from the last copy.

You should also check out the new Move / Duplicate feature in 2.3. Draw the original lines, select them, and press Return/Enter. You can make all the copies with a specified offset in one stroke.

Cheers

[GarryP]

An alternative to the advice above, in this particular case, could be to use a Table with the “All Horizontals” formatting of the cell borders given a Stroke.

See attached video for a quick example.

Once you have set-up the table in this way it will be easy to format the individual cells as necessary if you want some lines/cells to look slightly different.

[DianeF]

Thank you both for your suggestions. They were very helpful! I upgraded to V2.3 and tried the Move/Duplicate feature but I couldn't figure out the settings.  but, for some reason, Command J worked and my lines moved down the page very quickly. I"ll continue to experiment with these tools in order to figure them out better. But, now I have the lines I need for my project.