InDesign How-To: Creating Tables

This story is taken from “Real World Adobe InDesign CS.”
Tables provide a compact way of presenting complex information in a layout. But many creative folk shudder at the prospect of designing them. Tables are boring and difficult to format, goes the common thinking. And tables mean using Excel, right? Ick.
Well, ever since Adobe InDesign 2, designing tables got a whole lot better .Tables are without a doubt one of InDesign’s coolest features, letting you create not only sophisticated data charts but also clever image grids. InDesign CS adds several new table features, including automatic header and footer rows,

In this excerpt from “Real World InDesign CS,” layout maestros Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner takes you inside InDesign’s prodigious table-creation feature. .
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Excerpted from “Real World InDesign CS” © 2004 Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

David Blatner is the co-founder of the Creative Publishing Network, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro Magazine, and the author or co-author of 15 books, including Real World InDesign. His InDesign videos at LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) are among the most watched InDesign training in the world.
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  • anonymous says:

    This is great information on working with tables. I learned a lot. Thank you.

    Also thanks to Creativepro.com for having more InDesign tips and stories.

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