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Table footer rows to set stroke at bottom of table

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    • #58876

      I need to create tables that have a stroke at the top and bottom, but not at the sides. I've created a table style and appropriate cell styles for body, header, and footer rows. I was hoping that the table style would then take care of the stroke if I told it that the first row was a header row and the lat row a footer row.

      The trouble is that I can't tell it not to repeat the row! That's fine for the header row; I want that to repeat. But for the footer row I just want the last line of data with a stroke at the bottom. If it goes onto two pages, I want the last row on the first page to have a stroke at the bottom, and the last row on the second page to have a stroke at the bottom, not for the last row to be repeated on each page. Do I have to apply the cell style to the appropriate rows manually, or is there some way I can get the table style to do what I want?

      (I thought of creating a blank footer row to hold the stroke, which could then repeat on every page, but then I have to add that row to each of my tables coming in from Word. It also makes some of the other processing I do a lot more complicated.)

    • #58880
      jpannier
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      The trick with the footer sounds good but as you already experienced you need a footer row ;-).

      As far as I know there’s no way of telling InDesign to detect the last row in a table at the end of a text frame. And the table style will only apply the stroke at the top and at the very end – once.

    • #58882

      Applying the stroke just once at the very end would be acceptable, but how can I get it to do that if I don't set the last row as a footer row, or set the cell style manually? I don't see an option in the Table Setup to not have the footer row repeat at all.

    • #103855
      Tim Murray
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      I can’t believe this is 2018 and Adobe hasn’t addressed this. I would bet my left nicotine-stained lung that most writers want a stroke at the very bottom. But in way I feel better, because I thought I must have been missing something. While I do like many features of InDesign, for technical pubs, I still like FrameMaker . . . but as a Mac user I simply don’t want to crank up a virtual Windows environment unless absolutely necessary.

      • #103868

        You seriously had to bring a 7-year-old zombie thread back to life?

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