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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

Adjusting Table Setup

Once you have a table, being able to adjust it is crucial. The Table Setup option in InDesign allows you to alter Table Dimensions, make adjustments to the Table Border property, change Table Spacing by inserting space before or after the table, and even fine-tune the Stroke Drawing Order property.

Getting started

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. Create a text frame and type My new Table then hit return twice and type Another bit of info. Now position the cursor on the empty line between the two lines of text and insert a table as shown in the Inserting and creating tables recipe.

How to do it…

To make adjustments to tables within your document, follow these steps:

  1. Using the Type tool, click inside your table. Now, go to the Table menu and expand the Table Options fly-out menu. Click the first option, which...
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