Fix elements within objects at their position? (Prevent movement when resizing)

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Published on 2013-01-28T09:48:28Z Indexed on 2013/06/30 10:23 UTC
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I would like to know if it is possible to fix elements at their absolute position within custom elements in InDesign CS5? I created a kind of speech bubble and I would like to place a stripline within this bubble to separate two content areas. Just a little scheme to show the desired layout as Pseudo-Markup :D

<speech-bubble>
    <textbox>HEADER SECTION</textbox>
    <stripline>
    <textbox>Some other text</textbox>
</speech-bubble>

I created something like this but with two separate elements which aren't connected. So I have to select both of them in order to move the whole bubble. Then I tried to connect them using Object->Paths->Create linked path but then the stripline moves and the HEADER SECTION moves too. All in all I would like to have a speech bubble which can be resized in order to hold more text but it shouldn't make the HEADER_SECTION larger or move the stripline.

Hope you understand what I mean :D

Thanks in advance!

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