Here’s one that’s defeated Adobe’s forums and just about any other indesign expert I can dig out – I’m sure you guys will have an answer – seems pretty basic stuff.
I have a 60 page document with approximately 2 table per page (yes that’s 120 tables). My client wants a tint behind alternate rows to assist legibility – the trouble is, because of the nature of the product, it’s not nice regular alternate rows. I need to apply the same cell styling (across the entire row) but to irregular rows (for example rows 1,2, 5,9,11, 16). The ‘alternate row fill’ function won’t work here (will it?). What I want to be able to do is to multiple select irregular rows. In any other programme and on any other OS this is possible by holding down CMD (on the mac) and CTRL (on the PC) and clicking the rows you want. Once done you can apply the cell style sheet. It doesn’t work in Indesign – try it.
So – what I’m left with is applying cell styling one row at a time (AAAAAAARGH!) or using Quark (2 x AAAAAAARGH!). So I throw my self on your mercy and seek a solution.
For good measure – I can’t use the rule under / baseline shift trick here as I need to select vertically.
I have put up a sample page here:
https://www.carrdale.com/indesignCells.html
Annoyingly – having gone to the trouble to create a page I realise this one is actually regular – but you get the idea!
Huge thanks in advance.
Martin