Best way to draw a line in a document

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Is there a better way to draw lines in a document that the use of the underscore of the keyboard key?  It sometimes seems a bit choppy.

I know that you can draw a line with the pen tool, but how the experts he make?

Thank you once again!

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I've seen almost every single manufacturing method of line that exists in the page layout software. I'm not an expert here - I work in a translation firm, processing files of other people, so I can't see the files InDesign made by experts, novices rank and all the world between the two. One of the most flexible settled in tabs with tab-leaders:

With the marker-tab pointing to the right or left, you can make some very carefully aligned fields. Takes some experimentation really learn how to use it, though. As Mike says you can do with a underscore in the tab leader box, or with highlights.

Personally, I like the extraordinary character "Right align tab" with an underline applied.

I'd rather stressed because you can easily adjust the weight and the distance between the base line. I usually do a character for that all fields style in my document all have the same weight (which can be change easily in one place).

Some people use tables; I'm not a fan of the use of tables for this purpose, but they are achievable. (I don't like em enough to take the screenshots.)

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