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Tables, part 2

Tables, part 2 - InDesign Tutorial

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Tables, part 2

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InDesign has a lot of useful features when it comes to working with tables and for this particular exercise I prepared this file where we have nothing currently on the actual page in the document but I placed this sample table contents here on the pasteboard and this is just a simple text frame and the text is placed in with tabbed separators between the elements and in the first line we have the column titles or header row. Now whenever you have something like this you can actually select all the text and go to the table menu and choose convert text to table which is an extremely useful feature that can generate the table based on the settings that you choose here so by default I would normally use tab for the column separators and paragraph breaks for row separators. We could also choose a table style but by default we won't have any of these so we will just go with the basic table style and once I click OK notice how it automatically generated this table for us so that looks…

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