Hi Thompson – thanks for your reply – much appreciated.

Actually what you describe is pretty much the way I have decided to go (ie apply alternate tints and then manually amending). The problem is that productivity would be MASSIVELY improved if there WAS a keyboard short cut for selecting alternate rows (ie more than row at a time but not in sequence). This was the major problem described above. You can see my issue with the volume of tables. There’s a world of difference between ‘highlight row > apply style’ then ‘highlight next row > apply style’ and ‘highlight all rows requiring style > apply style’. A very rough calculation could add as much as 6 hours to the job – this doesn’t take into account client amends.

One thought – do you know if it’s possible to write a script to add this functionality to indesign?

Martin