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Tables – 5 columns become 3

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    • November 25, 2021 at 10:35 pm #14350836
      Alistair Gunn
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      Hi All

      I have a table in a landscape document which has 5 columns, I’d like the same table in a portrait document but it should only have have 3 columns, keeping the cell width roughly the same. Each cell contains an image (logo) with text underneath.

      Is there any way to make the contents re-flow so that instead of just being deleted (when I reduce the amount of columns) they will go down into the next row. Or is my only option to manually cut and paste the contents of the excess columns?

      Many thanks

    • November 27, 2021 at 3:44 pm #14350838
      Steve Davis
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      I think this great article (that Justin from Ajar published his week) will address it: https://ajarproductions.com/blog/2021/11/22/liquid-layout-in-adobe-indesign-what-is-it-used-for/

    • November 29, 2021 at 9:24 am #14351051
      Nick B
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      Hi Alistair

      I haven’t used liquid layouts but it feels like that should work. My only other suggestion is a bit of a hacky way, which may work if your table cell contents are fairly straightforward. Having a cell delimiter that isn’t part of your table contents is the main thing – you have a choice of tab, comma or paragraph but I only verified it works using Tab.

      1. convert the table to text, using Tab (or your choice of delimiter) for _both_ row and column separator
      2. convert the text back to a table, using the same delimiter for both row and column separator – as long as the separator for columns and rows is the same it will ask how many columns you want

      Not particularly clean, but it will handle inline or anchored images and quick if it works.

      Nick

    • November 30, 2021 at 7:09 pm #14351189
      Alistair Gunn
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      Thanks Steve, thanks Nick,

      Justin has a great product and I had seen that article, reading it more carefully and systematically going through the options for Liquid layouts it unfortunately didn’t give me the result I was after.

      Nick, I tried your ‘hacky way’ and that did do the trick! I would never of thought to use the same delimiter for both row and column separator.

      Many thanks
      Alistair

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