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305 Keep options for table rows

305 Keep options for table rows - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

305 Keep options for table rows

- [Instructor] Did you know that there are keep options for tables? Yes there are, it's kind of interesting. Let's talk about how that would work first of all, and what a keep option is. Here we're looking at a very long table that isn't placed all the way yet, along with some text. We have some empty pages for that table to go into, but before I even get into auto-flowing this table, let's go up to this text, and if I zoom in a bit, let's say that we wanted this paragraph to start at the top of the next column. I could just resize the frame itself to force it up there, but if I updated some of this text, or edited it, like I'm just going to copy and paste, then it pushes that text down, or if I did it the other way, if I deleted some text, then that paragraph comes back up. So the best way to force text to the top of the next column or page is to use what's called a keep option. So I can click right here anywhere in this paragraph, and then go to the control panel menu, go down to…

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