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• • September 27, 2012 at 1:45 am #63256
    Rhiannon Miller

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    When I have a table that is set over more than one text frame, I'd like to be able to set a stroke at the bottom of the last row in the first frame. But then I don't want a stroke on the first row of the next frame. However, setting the stroke on one row seems to automatically set the same stroke on the other. Is there a way of getting InDesign to treat the boundary as two separate strokes when the cells are in separate frames?

  • September 27, 2012 at 6:35 pm #63260
    Tom Pardy

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    Not sure whether your layout would make it practicable, but how about putting the stroke on the text frame rather than on the table row?

  • September 28, 2012 at 9:23 am #63262
    Rhiannon Miller

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    Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately we don't have strokes on the sides of these tables, and I don't believe there's any way of getting a stroke on only one edge of a frame. (If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear about it – that would save us no end of trouble!)

  • October 4, 2012 at 4:47 am #63292
    David Blatner

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    That IS annoying! I actually had never noticed that InDesign acts this way… the bottom edge of the last row is “the same” as the top edge of the first row in the next frame. That makes sense when the table is in one frame, but not in this case.

    However, you can fool it: Apply the line to the last row of the table (at the very end of the table), then select that row and choose Table > Convert to > Footer. That applies the line at the end of every page. You can leave that row blank and it will just be a “line row.”

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