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InDesign: Tables

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Course Description

Overview

Learn efficient and inventive ways to use and format tables in InDesign.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Understanding Table Fundamentals
  • Understanding the "golden rules"
  • Accessing table commands
  • Navigating and selecting tables
  • Where do tables come from?
2. Basic Table Formatting
  • Positioning tables in a text frame
  • Setting table borders
  • Setting header and footer rows
  • Working with alternating fills
  • Working with alternating strokes
3. Basic Cell Formatting
  • 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
4. Other Table Formatting Techniques
  • 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
5. Working with Graphics in Tables
  • Understanding graphic cells
  • Resizing graphics in tables
  • Modifying graphic cell frames
  • Converting cells to graphic frames and back
6. Table and Cell Styles
  • 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
7. Updating Tables
  • Working with linked Word and Excel documents
  • Using Cut and Paste to update table data
8. Special Table Effects
  • Using anchored shapes to change cell corners
  • Creating infographics with tables
  • Highlighting a column
  • Setting up standalone columns
9. Tables That Don't Look Like Tables
  • Simplifying complex text frames with tables
  • Setting up images and captions with tables
  • Creating pull quotes and design objects using tables
10. Exporting Tables to EPUB and HTML
  • Understanding best practices
  • Converting tables to graphics for export
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Diane Burns

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