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Five tips to better tables

Five tips to better tables

From the course: Type Tips

Five tips to better tables

- [Instructor] This week's Type Tip is all about tables, and I have five common sense tips for working with tables. Number one, break out of data prison. Number two, use a condensed font. Number three, use Tabular Lining numbers. Number four, emphasize the reading direction. And finally, be flexible about the alignment. So let's see how these work. So here I have my data prison table, and this is what you get when you convert text to a table in InDesign. You have a table border, you have row strokes, and you have column strokes. Let's get rid of them and just reintroduce only those that are necessary. I'll double-click into my table, select the table by clicking at top left, and then come to my preview proxy on my control panel. I need to make sure that all of these lines are blue. And if they're not, you can triple-click to make them all blue. So they're all now being affected, and I'm going to make them None. Right, having removed them, let's just see how that looks, I'm now going…

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