I’m up to the section in my book (InDesign CS3 Visual Quickstart) where I talk about the new feature for Table and Cell styles. I think someone has left something out of the whole paradigm.
The stroke settings for Table styles follow the same workflow for Table attributes and only allow you to control the stroke of the table borrder.
If you want to create stroke colors for the interior cells, you have to define a cell style.
This doesn’t follow the same logic as Paragraph and Character styles, where the Paragraph styles can control all attributes of the text, including character attributes.
As it is now, you have to define a new cell style in order to change the interior strokes of a table style.
I understand Adobe’s attempt to control cell styles this way. But shouldn’t there be a default cell style in all documents that is, by default, applied to the Basic Table style?
That way it would allow me to change the stroke color for a table by just redefining one area of the Table style and one area of the cell style. Right now I have to define a cell style, then open the Basic Table Style and then apply the cell style to all the areas of the Table.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on July 23, 2007
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