Reply To: Auto align tops of various length paragraphs across text boxes

stuarth64 said:I would suggest that you create a table with 9 columns and a row for each paragraph. Because table cells auto expand to accomodate the text they contain, the height of the entire row will adjust accordingly. The stroke and inset values of the cells can be set to zero so that it does not appear as a table when previewed.

Thank you for the idea. I have never yet used tables in InDesign. :) Some questions came to mind:

(1) Can I place text flowing it one paragraph at a time into table cells? The text is either WORD or .txt or .rtf. Although it would be divided into 66 sections (books of the Bible), there would be a total of 31102 cells for only ONE column for the entire book! Cutting and pasting little pieces or splitting up the text file would be impracticable. It'd be great if I could automatically assign text pieces (up to a forced line break) into the cells and have the table automatically add new cells until there are no more text blocks (paragraphs) to add.

(2) Will the cells flow to the next page okay automatically?

(3) Can the table to across the entire spread, not page?

Any other advice on learning to use tables well?