Overview
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Learn efficient and inventive ways to use and format tables in InDesign.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Understanding the "golden rules"
- Accessing table commands
- Navigating and selecting tables
- Where do tables come from?
- Positioning tables in a text frame
- Setting table borders
- Setting header and footer rows
- Working with alternating fills
- Working with alternating strokes
- Setting row height and column width
- Formatting text in a cell
- Positioning text in a cell
- Mastering row and column strokes
- Working with cell fills
- Setting diagonal lines in tables
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Moving rows and columns
- Merging and splitting cells
- Creating tables with rounded-corner borders
- Rotating text at 90-degree angles
- Rotating text at 45-degree angles
- Using gradients in tables
- Converting lists to tables
- Dealing with overset text in table cells
- Understanding graphic cells
- Resizing graphics in tables
- Modifying graphic cell frames
- Converting cells to graphic frames and back
- Understanding the limitations of table and cell styles
- Setting up and applying text cell styles
- Working with cell style overrides
- Setting up and applying table styles
- Using cell styles to clean up table styles
- Sharing and re-using table and cell styles
- Working with linked Word and Excel documents
- Using Cut and Paste to update table data
- Using anchored shapes to change cell corners
- Creating infographics with tables
- Highlighting a column
- Setting up standalone columns
- Simplifying complex text frames with tables
- Setting up images and captions with tables
- Creating pull quotes and design objects using tables
- Understanding best practices
- Converting tables to graphics for export
- Next steps
