InDesign: Tables

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

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