How to Continue Headers in Split Tables in InDesign

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In this InDesign how-to video, Jason Hoppe demos a clever way to have one table header for the first instance of a split table, and a different one for all subsequent locations. It takes a little bit of behind-the-scenes magic, but it gets the job done nicely!

This comes from Jason’s “Tabs and Tables” session at CreativePro’s InDesign + Type Summit 2021.

Jason Hoppe is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor with more than 20 years’ experience in photo retouching, color correction, infographics, and creative workflow management. He currently teaches at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works, Seattle Central College and was the founding Instructor at CreativeLive.
  • Nadia van 't Oosten says:

    Nice! This makes me think of something else: what to do if a table cell (or row) contains so much data that it has to be split at the bottom of the page. Word knows how to handle that, but InDesign does not (as far as I and over 600 other people in the feature request know)…

  • Scott Kelty says:

    This is a good tip for visually continuing the table. But unfortunately InDesign doesn’t have (and could/should have) a way to define a first header row and a continued header row. I say this because I’ve been involved in more remediation in Acrobat, and this (among other things that occur when exporting PDFs for remediation from InDesign) would be a time-saving, frustration-lessening feature.

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