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• • July 10, 2019 at 6:33 am #117556
    Anonymous

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    Good day everyone, it has been a while!

    Okay so I have a small issue, I need to apply numbering to cells in a table using a pre-defined style, I know about the levels and new lists but I can’t get InDesign to follow the numbers vertically through the cells. Every time I write in a new cell in the next column, the numbering switches to horizontal and then continues to the cells below.

    To explain it better, I want the words inside the table to start with (1,2,3,4) in one column in 4 different rows, then continue (5,6,7,8) in the next column. But what is happening is that InDesign is counting 1 and 2 horizontally and the third number below “1” is becoming “3” instead of “2”.

    I hope I made myself clear, and I hope someone can tell me right away that this is not applicable without manual editing because I have been trying the so many workarounds I know but none seems to work.

    Thank you anyway!

  • July 17, 2019 at 7:15 am #117657
    Kelly Vaughn

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    It won’t work in a table. But you can fake it. Try using a multi-column text frame with paragraph borders. If the content in your table flows onto more than one line, use Align to Baseline grad as part of your paragraph style, and then adjust the baseline grid and border offset so that the paragraph borders line up.

  • July 17, 2019 at 8:44 am #14324423
    Kelly Vaughn

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    Oops, I meant a single column text frame that has the paragraphs set to split columns. That will give you more flexibility and you can have it right inside your existing text frame.

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