For anyone on a Mac reading this, this feature only works if you have the application frame active.

But it works just fine for me in CS4 and CS5

Bob

If you're working alone, it doesn't matter. If you're working with others put them in a folder and use bridge.

A library can only be opened and changed by one person at a time, while a folder in Bridge can be added to by any number of folks. And with MiniBridge in CS5 it's real easy to maintain that folder of snippets.

Another benefit of snippets is that they can be saved in a folder accessable to multiple users. Combine that with mini bridge and you've got, IMO, an excellent way of accessing those snippets.

You might want to try copy/pasting to Illustrator. From there you can tweak just about anything, save as PDF or AI and place that into InDesign.

We'd really need more info but the thing that concerns me is that you're flattening the PDF and outlining the fonts. That most certainly is not a recommended workflow. I'd be very wary of any printer that had requirements such as this.

If you post the PDF somewhere perhaps we can take a look.

Are you exporting? Are there crop marks?

InDesign will export to PDF with all process colors even if they're not used. You should simply inform the printer not to output the blank plates.

Well then, I stand corrected but man, I could have sworn you couldn't do this.

I'm not sure I get what you're trying to do. You say you want to keep the formatting but then you mention converting the table to text.

In my experience, if the table if properly formatted in Excel and you place it choosing formatted table, you shouldn't have any major issues.

If you do want text, consider creating a nested paragraph style using tabs to begin and end the styling. Pasting the table as text will convert the cell borders to tabs.

Bob