InDesign How-To: Designing Distinctive Tables
The ability to create tables has been a highy touted feature of both InDesign 2.0 and QuarkXpress 5.0. But tables themselves are rather hum-drum: Make some rows and columns, maybe throw in a tint, import the data, and you’re done, right? Wrong. Learn how to add graphic panache to tables in InDesign 2.0 in this tutorial from Adobe Systems.
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This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on July 26, 2002
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