#ACTIVE TABLES FOR ADOBE INDESIGN UPDATE#
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Some of the controls in the Table panel can also be found in the Control panel.

If you want the graphic to fill the entire cell, make sure the Cell Insets values are set to zero and the Clip Contents to Cell checkbox is turned on in the Cell Options dialog box (see “Formatting Tables,” later in this chapter). Note that you must select text or have an active text insertion point selecting the cell itself will not get the graphic into the cell. You place a graphic in a table cell in exactly the same fashion as you insert a graphic in text: click the Type tool in a cell, or select some text inside a cell, then place a file or paste a graphic you copied to the Clipboard earlier (see Figure 6-12).

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If you need to update the data from an Excel document that you’ve turned into an InDesign table, you can copy the cells in Excel, switch to InDesign, select one or more cells in your table, and paste. If you select the cell itself (press Esc to toggle between selecting what’s inside the cell and the cell itself), and if the data you’re pasting has tabs or carriage returns in it, InDesign maps the clipboard data across more than one cell. If the text cursor is flashing inside a cell when you paste, InDesign pastes all the data into that one cell. You can paste data into a table, but before you choose Paste from the Edit menu (or press Command-V/Ctrl-V) pay attention to what’s selected.

#ACTIVE TABLES FOR ADOBE INDESIGN MAC#

To enter a tab character, choose Tab from the Other submenu in the Insert Special Character submenu of the Context menu (or, if you’re using the Mac OS, press Option-Tab). Either way, you don’t get the character you’re looking for. If the cursor is in the last cell of the table, pressing Tab creates a new table row. How the heck can you enter a tab character in a table cell? When you press Tab, InDesign moves the cursor to the next cell in the table (see “Table Shortcuts,” later in this chapter). You select text inside a table cell using the same methods you use to select text in a text frame: Use the Type tool. What do these different cursors mean? What can you do with these tools? To find out, take a look at Table 6-1. It’s easy to tell when you’re in this mode, because the cursor changes shape as you position it above cell, row, column, and table boundaries. Once you’ve done this, you can enter and edit text in the cell, paste or place text or graphics in the cell, or even create another table inside the cell. To select elements in a table, or to edit a table’s content (text, rows, or columns), click the Type tool in one of the cells of the table. You do this by merging cells, which we’ll discuss later, in “Merging Cells.”

In spite of the above restrictions, you can create tables containing cells that are wider than their parent columns or taller than their parent rows.

Just as changing the width of a cell changes the width of a column, so altering the height of a cell changes the height of a row.

A row is always the height of the tallest cell in the row.

When you change the width of a cell, you’re really changing the width of the column containing the cell.

A column is always the width of the widest cell in the column.

Once you’ve created a table, you can’t just sit and admire it (as tempting as that might be for longtime page layout users) you’ve got to do something with it.īefore we talk about that, though, we’d better lay down a few ground rules about cells, rows, and columns. Learn More Buy Editing Tables Editing Tables

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