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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

You're reading from   Designing the Adobe InDesign Way Explore 100+ recipes for creating stunning layouts with the leading desktop publishing software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074438
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Gardiner Andy Gardiner
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings 2. Chapter 2: Working with Text in InDesign FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using Tables 4. Chapter 4: Using the InDesign Frame Tools 5. Chapter 5: Adding Images to Your Documents 6. Chapter 6: Taking Images Further 7. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Parent Pages 8. Chapter 8: Working with Colors and Gradients 9. Chapter 9: Formatting with Paragraph and Character Styles 10. Chapter 10: Generating and Updating a Table of Contents 11. Chapter 11: Creating Interactivity and PDF Forms 12. Chapter 12: Using and Collaborating with CC Libraries 13. Chapter 13: Preflighting and Outputting 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Inserting and creating tables

Tables can be a useful feature in your designs for presenting content in a way that is very quick and easy to interpret, allowing readers to analyze and compare data easily. In this recipe, we are going to look at both adding a blank table to an existing text frame, as well as how to create a table straight on the page within a dedicated frame. You will choose this frame depending on whether your table is free-standing or mixed in with the document’s existing text.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, simply open InDesign on your system and create a new document with 12 pages, as shown in the Creating a new document recipe in Chapter 1, Customizing the InDesign Interface and New Document Settings.

How to do it…

To create new tables within your document, follow these steps:

  1. First, create a blank text frame within your document, as shown in the Creating text frames and adding placeholder text recipe in Chapter 2. Now,...
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