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• • November 17, 2009 at 2:06 pm #53757
    hifispin

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    I am re-doing a catalog that was done in CS-4 indesign and I am very new to the program. I am trying to change the Gap color in a table from “Paper” to “None”. How is this done? Please help!

    Thank you.

  • November 17, 2009 at 2:59 pm #53758
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Gap colours are controlled by the Stroke Panel. Window>Strokes

    Hard to know what you mean, GAP colours for strokes that have double or tripple lines, or for dotted strokes. Not really used in tables, I believe.

    But I think you are taking about Cell Strokes, and it's not the Gap Colour, that's a different thing.

    Instead, in the Strokes Panel, when you have a row(s) or column(s) or cell(s) selected, choose which side of the cell(s) you want to adjust, anything highlighted in Blue will be what is changed (clicking them unhighlights them).

    From here go to the Swatches Panel (Window>Swatches) and change the stroke colour to None.

    (you should see two small squares at the top of the Panel on the left, the one on the top left is Fill Colour and the one to the right is Stroke Colour – select the stroke colour and change the colour to what you need, which in this case is None).

    Hope that helps (it might sound confusing sorry if it does)

  • November 17, 2009 at 3:10 pm #53759
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Good points, Hank. One more important (and not immediately obvious) thing about strokes in tables: You need to select the cells you want to change first (by dragging over them with the Type tool), and then choose the sides of the cells you want to control (change the stroke of) in the Tables panel (or Control panel). Choose sides by clicking on the sides of the icon to turn on/off each segment (or triple-click to turn all on/off).

  • November 17, 2009 at 3:14 pm #53760
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    One little thing I picked up on only recently, and how embarrassing, but when selecting the Strokes in the Panel proxy, you can just Right Click or CMD Click in the proxy to get a contextual menu to select or deselect different areas of the stroke.

    For me that's easier than clicking and tripple clicking.

    I've been doing tables in InDesign practially every day for probably the last 3 years – and I just picked up on that recently

  • November 17, 2009 at 7:54 pm #53763
    Mike Rankin

    Keymaster

    Hank_scorpio FTW! I never thought of right clicking on the proxy. Now I'm going to have to right click on everything just to see what else I missed. On second thought, curse you, hank_scorpio! ;)

  • November 17, 2009 at 8:41 pm #53764
    Adam Jury

    Member

    hank_scorpio has just saved the collective InDesign community roughly 4 billion hours. Thank you, Hank!

  • November 18, 2009 at 1:34 am #53771
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I right click everthing. It's amaziing what you are presented with.

  • November 18, 2009 at 10:08 am #53775
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Pheeewwwwweeeeee I wasn't the only one LOL.

    Yeh it's a great little contextual menu – Obscure Indesign Feature of the week-eek-eek-eek.

    Glad it helps you guys. When I go home this evening there'll be an extra story on my house! (Hank Scorpio only did one episode of the Simpsons – so I'll run out of catch phrases and quotes pretty soon.)

  • November 18, 2009 at 11:02 am #53778
    Tim Hughes

    Member

    Cool one Hank, that may have cut my yearly clicks by at least a third (possibly).

    :-)

  • November 18, 2009 at 11:50 am #53780
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Well you're gonna have to right click and then click an option, then click a cell stroke you want. It's still 3 clicks. I just find the measly clickable area they leave you is just too hard to click 3 times in a row in quick sucession, especially when it's first thing in the morning and you have the pre-coffee jitters.

    What's wrong witha HUGE clickable stroke area? Or to be able to drag the mouse around it. Or to double click a quadrant? It's no so bad via the Strokes Panel, but that proxy in the control is just too small :D

  • November 19, 2009 at 12:20 am #53814
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I hear 'ya Hank. A HUGE clickable area!

    {EDIT: Just to check my post time versus edit time–they are off hours}

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