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Use tabs or tables in setting Financial Statements in Annual Reports

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    • February 3, 2010 at 4:00 am #54774
      karenschmidt777
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      Hi there. I'm having to set up the Financial Statements section in two Annual Reports and, although I've always only used tabs to do this, I am now wondering whether using tables would be a better option. Can anyone advise me please?

    • February 3, 2010 at 4:26 am #54775
      Anonymous
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      Personally I use Tables all the time for these.

      It's easier to apply separating lines, and separating colours behind the text. A lot more flexible in moving columns.

      You'll just need to have paragraph styles for Double Underline, Single Underline and other things.

      It's pretty straight forward. I find that if you use an En Space or Figure Space before the numbering to extend the Underline a bit from the text, you can even include it on the other side.

    • February 3, 2010 at 6:54 am #54777
      karenschmidt777
      Member

      Thank you for your quick response Eugene. I'm definitely going to give a go and see how it works out… hopefully save me hours and hours of tedious tab-setting! Thanks again.

    • February 5, 2010 at 2:52 am #54812
      Colin Flashman
      Member

      tables. hands down. after years of using tabs in quark, and then going to indesign and using tables, i'd never go back to tabs.

    • February 5, 2010 at 4:32 am #54813
      karenschmidt777
      Member

      Thanks Colin. Advice greatly appreciated. Am definitely going that route.

    • April 16, 2010 at 12:14 pm #55533
      ronkoz
      Member

      Eugene Tyson said:

      Personally I use Tables all the time for these.

      It's easier to apply separating lines, and separating colours behind the text. A lot more flexible in moving columns.

      You'll just need to have paragraph styles for Double Underline, Single Underline and other things.

      It's pretty straight forward. I find that if you use an En Space or Figure Space before the numbering to extend the Underline a bit from the text, you can even include it on the other side.

      Hi Eugene

      I'm about to try this as well and I'm wondering how you format the rules that go across 7 to 10 columns. Would you just have a separate row?

      Thanks in advance

      Ron

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