Aligning Lines

Hi,
I have been working with Indesign as a Student for quite a few years now and have never been able to find out how to align the writing in two columns. This becomes a problem when I for example add a title within the text flow which has a different font size than the rest of my writing. I am sure there is an easy way how to fix it. I would really appreciate some advice.
Thank You
Tom

You can set your document´s baseline grid to match your text´s leading. Then you simply check your text to allign to grid from paragraph style setting (or locally from control panel)
Alternatively you can use Custom Baseline Grid from Text Frame Options... with it you set grid for every textframe separately.

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║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║
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sabre,
Looks like monospaced isn't found on windows (vista)... So I used "Courier New" instead.
Sabre20090412a.java is saved with encoding=UTF-8 (i.e. CP1252) instead of the default ASCII, which doesn't support the extended characters.
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import javax.swing.JFrame;
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static {
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    t += "║∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙║\n";
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build (NOTE the -encoding utf-8)*
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run
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http://www.google.com/search?q=warning%3A+unmappable+character+for+encoding+Cp1252&hl=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 #says 1252== IANIA UTF-8 except
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl #page for 2500 onwards
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5185338 #-encoding
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/2D-Graphics-GUI/Listallavailablefontsproviedinthesystem.htm
Roedy Green rocks!
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html#AVAILABLEJ
http://mindprod.com/applet/fontshower.html
Thanx for the fish!
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