InDesign Tables In Depth

This course explores the powerful but occasionally mysterious table features in InDesign, illustrating how they can be used efficiently and to their best advantage. Author Diane Burns demonstrates how to set up a table, format it using Table commands, and capture that formatting in table styles as well as how to work with images and update the information in tables without losing formatting. The course also shows how to use tables that don’t look like tables to offer solutions to layout problems, like setting up images and captions or simplifying complex text frames.

Topics include:

• Navigating and selecting tables
• Positioning tables
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Adding header and footer rows, fills, strokes, and borders
• Dealing with overset text
• Applying cell and table styles
• Using tables to streamline graphic design work
• Creating infographics with tables
• Creating pull quotes and design objects using tables
• Exporting tables to EPUB and HTML

Table of content

• Welcome
  • Introduction
  • Using the exercise files
• Understanding Table Fundamentals
  • The three “Golden Rules”
  • Accessing table commands
  • Navigating and selecting tables
  • Where do tables come from?
• Basic Table Formattingm
  • Positioning tables in a text frame
  • Setting table borders
  • Inserting and deleting rows and columns
  • Setting header and footer rows
  • Working with alternating strokes and fills
  • 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
• Other Table Formatting
  • Merging and splitting cells
  • Creating tables with rounded-corner borders
  • Rotating text in a cell
  • Using gradients in tables
  • Dealing with overset text
• Table and Cell Styles
  • Understanding the limitations of table and cell styles
  • Setting up and applying cell styles
  • Setting up and applying table styles
  • Using cell styles to “clean up” table styles
• Updating Tables
  • Working with linked files
  • Using Cut and Paste to update table data
• Working with Images in Tables
  • Placing images in tables
  • Using graphics frames in tables
• Gettin’ Fancy: Using Anchored Objects in Tables
  • Using shapes to change cell corners
  • Creating infographics with tables
• 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
• Exporting Tables to EPUB and HTML
  • Comparing table styling for best export results
  • Converting tables to graphics for export
• Conclusion
  • Next steps

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