Excerpted from InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2. Published by Adobe Press.
In this article, you’ll look first at tabs and some of their common uses, and then at InDesign’s robust and versatile table-formatting features. By the end, you’ll be at ease with most any layout that calls for lists.
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This magazine’s table of contents page uses a clearly defined grid that is a good candidate for a table. Using a table in such a context can make it easier to edit the text and images in individual cells in following issues of the magazine.
Excerpted from InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 by Nigel French. Copyright © 2006 Nigel French. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Adobe Press.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on October 4, 2006
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