Some folks who love designing on grids create a bunch of narrow columns by figuring out the math so the column guides align with all the major and minor.
Ajusting gutter in text columns indesign.
Text frames can also be connected to other text frames so that the text in one frame can flow into another frame.
Adjust the space between the columns by entering a value in the field next to gutter or use the arrows next to the text field to increase or decrease the space.
When this is checked objects that you draw move or resize within 4 pixels of a guide will snap to the guides.
Choose view grids guides and make sure snap to guides is checked.
Indesign does not allow you to set up unequal column widths in any of the dialog boxes for working with margins columns or text frames.
But you can work around this problem in a few ways.
To set or change the number of columns in an individual text frame and establish the gutter spacing between these columns open the object menu and choose text frame options.
Adobe indesign s text frames can flow text from one column to another within a multi column frame.
Indesign uses the first definition in margins and columns so i m going to guess that is what your question is about.
Use margins and column guides to position content.
Some people use gutter to describe the space between 2 columns other use it to describe the space between two pages.