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Dealing with a table that looks messy because the columns or rows are unequal in width or height?
You don’t have to spend a lot of time fixing them manually. Instead, let InDesign do the work. Just select the desired range of columns or rows and choose Table > Distribute Columns Evenly and/or Table > Distribute Rows Evenly. Voila! Tidy tables.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on October 3, 2017
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