Format Tables InDesign | Add, Style, Modify, and Duplicate Tables in Adobe Indesign
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Hey everyone and Welcome to How to Add and Format Tables Within InDesign!
My name is Wendy Litteral of CreationDepot and I'm going to break this up into a few parts, starting with the ultimate basics on how to insert a table, then how to do basic formatting, then styling, and then setting actual styles within InDesign.
So! If you need to skip ahead hit up the description box below for the time stamps:
00:56 - Inserting a Table
04:10 - Working Within a Table
07:16 - Styling a Table
12:54 - Table Styles
17:41 - Cell Styles
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Outline:
How to create the table
- open a new page or your document
- draw yourself a text frame using the type tool or select where you want your table to be in your existing text; just make sure you see a cursor
- go to your menu, table, insert table or ctrl-alt-shift-t (cmd alt shift t on mac)
- within the "insert table" dialog box choose your inital table dimensions - you can always change this later, just get yourself something to work with
- header rows are rows that stay on the top of your table, even if it rolls over to another page ---- as it in repeats on every new page
- same with footer rows
- choose your table style (if it's a new doc you're not going to have a choice, but you can make one right now if you want to. We'll cover how to do that next anyway, but this is a shortcut way to access setting up table styles.)
- OK
Working With Tables
How to add more rows or columns
- to add more rows
-- can do it from the control panel
-- if you're at the end of the table and need a few more rows, just hit tab until you get as many as you need.
--alternatively you can right click and add more
- to add more columns, you have to right click and add more
- clicking within a cell
- selecting a whole row or column
- how to move entire columns or rows
How to Style the Table
- show by example
- click T in Swatches to set colors for text or background
- show how to set cell and table styles
How to Set Table Cell Height
- drag and set style
- set it in the Control Panel at the top
How to Style Borders Using Stroke Menu
-- triple click to deselect all strokes; and then you can just turn on the ones you want
Extra tips:
- merged cells (works the same as google docs and office products like word and excel)
-- highlight the ones you want to merge or unmerge and click the button in control panel
- keep with next row - keeps your text together which is a god send when you're doing your pagination (layouts) in larger docs 
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Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. I've been trying to design family group sheets and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do the lines in between the columns. This was a BIG help.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been searching for long for exactly this video for formatting tables in particular in InDesign software. Finally found it.
Thank you so much. I am a graphic designer, but I don't typically work with a lot of tables, and the ones I do work with I usually do fancy designs in illustrator. But today I am designing the layout for a 50 page manual, half of which is tables, and it's an urgent thing, and I was freaking out a little bit. You cleared up a lot of confusion for me and hopefully I will meet the deadline without too much stress!
Just .. thank you !! Despite having kids ~~ You should receive a badge of honour as it is no ordinary. People just got used to women achieve and do many things simultaneously, but it is not even close to ordinary !! Thank you and thank God there are women like you in this world 🙌🏻👏🏻💪🏻🙇🏻♀️
Thank you for this very clear and articulate tutorial, so helpful!
Absolutely stoked to be your 1K like on this - definitely coming back to you for all these great tips. Perfect instruction, speed and examples. Thank you!
Awesome, thank you!!! So glad it helped!! :) Thank you for the like!
Outstanding! I now have a place to go for resources. Appreciate it thank you so much!
I've been struggling with styling tables. I now get it. Thank you
Thank you. Simple and easy to follow.
A very helpful video. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial, its super clear and explains everything that's needed. Thank you :*
So glad it helped!! Thank you for the comment! I appreciate it!!! :)
GREAT tutorial, i'll probably watch it like 9 or 11 more times. I was ready to throw in the towel and just do it in illustrator, but this saved me a TON of work... Thanks!
Yep! Once you get it going tables in InDesign are really helpful. It's just that initial setup that's tough!
Thank you for this really helpful tutorial. You have made the process so easy to understand 😊
This was both informative and therapeutic.
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! I had spent a whole day trying to modify a header for a project and just gave up and went to sleep. Today I remembered youtube existed for this reason. :D
:D RUclips University for the win! :D
Thanks Wendy great tutorial and very helpful!!
Thanks Wendy. I like how your first class on Tables needs to stick with the basics. I understand there are great efficiencies with advanced table functions and live linking etc. but I'm just starting so this is right on.
I'm glad you found it helpful!!
Thank you, just what I needed! Very informative!
No problem! Glad it helped and thank you for commenting!
Thank you SO MUCH for your videos!
Thank you so much! Great tutorial Very helpful.
Thank you for this video.
Super helpful, thank you!
Great tutorial. Thank you so much.
Great tutorial! Quick and easy to get the skill I need for my project.
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial, super thorough for people who know a little InDesign but haven't yet dived into table design yet.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for taking the time to comment! :)
Thanks for this!
Great concise and informative tutorial!
Thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the comment! I appreciate the video bump!
thank you so much, its very clear and simply explained exactly like what i wanted specially the timestamps. btw i wish the full time happiness for that kid speaking in the back. thank you!
You're welcome 😊 And thank you! :D
Before I watch this whole tutorial, I'm going to say thanks in advance. I haven't really used much of InDesign since the early 2000s. Now I need to use it more for the position I took up at a company I'm with. Might be re-designing their catalog and I am hardly remembering much of InDesign anymore (very much out of practice with this particular program these days) so your videos are going to be a life-saver for sure!!
It's changed a lot since 2000, but it's not impossible. They streamlined a lot of things and made it more inline with Photoshop/Illustrator. Welcome back! :D
@@WendyLitteral Well I appreciate you posting videos on this matter. Definitely helps people like me get back in the swing of things. I am currently trying to figure out this "stroke" situation on a table. A table I need to mimic (I'll try to explain best I can without sounding confusing or insane)... this table has a stroke on the left side, on the top and bottom, and a stroke going from the left side over to the right for the rows, BUT... there is no stroke at all from the top of the table to the bottom on the right side and I can't figure out how to do that. :-\
Such a great video! Lots of info and super easy to follow. Thank you! ❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you Wendy!
Thank you so much for the "jump to" links in the descriptions!
No problem! Thanks for the comment!
Great introduction to the basics, thank you!
You're very welcome!
great video! thanks!
Thank you so much!!!
Very clear (and fun lol) many thanks Wendy! :)
You're welcome! Thank you for the comment!
Thank y0u!
Had to watch this for a Layout class. Thank you!!
Oh nice! Thanks for commenting!
Perfect ! Thanks, it was really useful :)
Glad it helped!!
Great tutorial. It was very useful for my project. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the comment!
Very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome! :)
Thanks! It help me a LOT!
You're welcome! And thank you for commenting! It really helps grow the channel!
Thanks!
Thanks a lot.
Thanks Wendy this helped a lot
So glad it helped! And thank you so much for commenting! It really makes a difference on the channel!
right on: thanks Wendy!
You're very welcome! Thanks for supporting the channel with a comment! I appreciate it!
Thanks you, great tutorial
Thank you! And thank you for commenting!!
It clear explain to indesign table, its very help full Thank you 🙏 😊
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for commenting!!
you have very nice videos and nice explaining
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Very helpful! Thank you so much! *~ thumbs up ~*
Thank you so much! And thank you for taking the time to comment! :)
Thank you Wendy :)
You're very welcome! Glad it helped!
GOD JOB.THANKS
Glad it helped!! Thank you for the comment/video bump!
Very helpful video, and it is fun to hear the happy kiddos in the background. Quick note, at around minute eight you refer to cyan (process blue) as teal. For the design nerds in the room that was like referring to Kirk as the Captain in Star Wars. Just thought I’d put that out there because I think you have a lot more wonderful videos to make which will include process colors.
Captain Kirk isn't Luke's Father? ;) Just kidding. Thanks for the comment! I'll keep an eye on my colors in the future. :D
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
💎💎Say "Thanks Wendy!!!" 💎💎 in the comments below to say, well, thanks!! 😀 Commenting really helps boost the video as does hitting the like button and subscribing. And I really appreciate your help!! I'm almost at 1000 subs!! It's been really exciting to watch this and other videos on the channel grow this page year. And as always if you have any questions, just leave a comment below and I'll respond ASAP! :) Take care! See you in the next one! - Wendy
Awesome video! Thank you for the clear explanation on the different styles and options!
You're welcome!
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Best explanation yet. I've got data exporting from large web database (book is about 350 pages). The data set repeats and I need to get it into indesign in a "repeating" table style. Can export data via XML w tags (but not sure I can get that data into indeisgn tables on the import, or CSV. But tables are stylized with a few horizontal strokes above rows and a vertical stroke between the two columns and some tabbed data in cells. Not sure there's a way. Anyone have thoughts on that? thx
Excellent video thank you... loved the background children effects.
Haha Thanks!! I'm not going to know what to do when they're allowed to go back to school again. Can't just go back to boring old silence. :D
Thank you Wendy, this was really helpful to get me started. Is it possible to mask off a column in a table? I have a linked Excel table and wish to hide certain columns on a catalogue page but have it visible on others? The bounding box does not hide the unwanted artwork. I hope you can point me in the right direction.
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You're welcome!
thank you for the tutorial.. I do have a question.. how can you be able to paste that same table on to the next line inside the textbox without any spaces below the table, like the 2 tables are connected and not 2 tables...... thanks :)
Thanks, lady with kids in the background.
Awesome info. Looking to figure out how to make tables flowable after converting to an Epub
Glad it was helpful!
very useful, thank you!
What I still dont get, is how can I fit the table to my text box? I understood, that you have to do it in the beginning.. but creating a table and wanting align it to my margins is kind of a huste.
Thank you
You're very welcome! Thank YOU for the comment! I appreciate the support!
Every tutorial I’ve seen says to create a text box and then place the table inside. This is the first time I have seen an explanation for that. I’ve been searching for hours. Thank you!
I assume if I’m just using a table for layout purposes on single pages, I don’t need the text box. Correct?
Sorry for the late reply I'm just getting back from vacation. Yes that is correct, you don't NEED the textbox. If you ever go back and add additional pages though I'd throw it in one (cut/paste) so you're not going crazy trying to navigate text around a floating table. :)
Thank you so much for this video! I am struggling with removing the row stroke. I don't have anything applied for it, but it is still showing up? I cannot figure out where to locate to turn it off? Thank you in advance :)
Can you post a screen shot here? You should be able to use snipboard.io to get a link. It's hard to say without seeing it.
Great tips! But I am in desperate need for help with 2 things: I couldn't find a way to center the whole table on the page horizontally, and second, the text inside my table is not centered horizontally in each cell unless I increase the table's width until it matches the width of the page, but i don't want my table to be as wide as the page..
I have a document that is a table and I would like to highlight or make the cell prominent (Stand out) when certain criteria are matched. Can this be done within InDesign data merge?
I believe data merge doesn't have that kind of dynamic abilities, but I also don't have enough experience with it to be able to say that definitively. Sorry I don't have a more definitive answer for you!
Thank you so much this is very helpful. However, I was wondering if the interactive fields contain written paragraphs from the client would the field automatically expand to contain the text? Is this possible? 🤔
If it does I don't know about it. I can see where that would be SO handy though!
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Can I convert an Indesign table to an image?
The content is perfect, Can you please describe Merge and how to add a row within the cell, that would be helpful.
What a great video idea! I'll make the video and link it here when it's done. Thanks for the idea!
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Hey kids! Mama is working over here! ^_^
Pretty much!!! It was 2020 - and is still true haha!! :D
Great tutorial. Just a question please, is it possible to create a Table Style from an existing table (where some styles are already applied). I mean when you create a 'character style' you can create it by selecting a formatted text and just create a new character style that will have the same format of the selected text. I can't get the same using tables. Probably I do some mistake...Thanks a lot.
Hey Giorgio - I made a new video to answer your question here: ruclips.net/video/zVYdffH1dp8/видео.html Hope this helps!
@@WendyLitteral hi Wendy, I'm watching your latest video with interest. I wondered why I can't create table in that way and the reason is in my 2019 version there's no '+ button' (the one you show at 2.44). Can I please ask which InDesign version are you using for your videos. Thanks..
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Thank you for commenting! It really helps out!
Can you please help me? I cant figure out how to top justify the copy on a cell... its not part of the align options anymore. So when i have cell in a table I want all the copy to justify to the top. Its frustrating so much because its not on the new CC version... or I cant find it. Please help :/
Sure! Highlight the cells you want to affect, then right click, cell options, text. snipboard.io/VxMjOQ.jpg Once the dialog box comes up, click on Vertical Justification's dropdown and make your selection. snipboard.io/zvekRy.jpg
@@WendyLitteral OMG I love you!!! Ive been trying for days to figure it out!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
@@denisejaydub Yay! Glad it helped!!
Two years later 🙏
Any tips to quickly resize the entire table?
Not that I can easily explain in a comment (I've tried haha), but I've added this to my video queue!
Can you make columns thicker than the rows?
Sorry for the delay - yes, you just need to modify the thickness in the settings or by dragging the columns.
Thanks / How to save column width of whole table as a style? There is no option in table style and cell style for that! It's just in the Table panel.
I want to format my entire table by setting the styles, but I can't work out where on earth to change that black line beneath the header? You managed to delete it from column B and C manually, but where is that style set? It's driving me mad.
Nice tutorial, somehow I couldn't switch off the guides in the end?
It's always hard to know how to answer when I can't see the other person's screen, but try turning them off by toggling one of these: snipboard.io/xOz1oH.jpg
sa ...I don't even have a available device where i can download it
Hi, could you please tell me how to make a row in a row?
Create your table, put your cursor inside one of the rows, and create a new table within that row. If you're trying to INSERT a row, click inside where you want it to be (or near it), then right click and add the new row above or below where you're at.
@@WendyLitteral thank you so much! will try it out now!
@@animefan199802 Good luck! :)
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:D Thanks! It bumped the video! I really appreciate you watching! :)
Found volume on quiet side..even when maxing out volume
Thanks for the feedback! I'll take note on future videos. Unfortunately I can't adjust it in already posted ones.
Very helpful but volume was too low even when I put it up to the highest level
THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE is what InDesign NEEDS to automate with AI. To have 131 steps* just to create a style sheet. Ridiculous!
*Not really, but seriously how many steps?
Agreeeed. It should be much simpler
Thanks for this. Can barely hear this :(
Thanks for the feedback. My audio should be much better going forward. I got a better mic and a better understanding of video editing since recording this. I am planning to come out with more InDesign Table tutorials here in the near future, and I can promise the audio will be MUCH better! :) Take care! - Wendy
😱 You started out great, but lost me at about 14:25 when you got in to creating auto styles (table, paragraph & cell). It would be help ful if ou did not act as if it was a known and explained each one at a time in detail - Create a table using Table Styles, then move on to cell and paragraph styles in what ever order makes sense, only showing one in complete detail before introducing the next. I have been using ID for years and work w/ tables regularly - all manual, which is a pain. I've yet to find someone to teach it very basic. The paragraph and cell styles particularly are confusing. If I could create my table and then say, now save this and turn it into a table style that would be idea.
Please don't twirl the mouse around on an instructional video. It's irritating to watch
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