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380 Fill empty table cells with this script

380 Fill empty table cells with this script - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

380 Fill empty table cells with this script

- [Instructor] I hate empty cells in a table, because they often feel like something is missing, like maybe there's been a mistake. For example, in this table, you can see that bunch of the cells are empty. But are they supposed to be empty or is some data just missing? So when you're designing a table and you know that you're going to have empty cells, it's often a good idea to fill them with something. For example I could place my text cursor inside this cell and just type an m dash, or I'll undo that and instead I'm going to go to the Table menu, come down here to Cell Options, and then choose Diagonal Lines. And here I'll turn on one these diagonal lines and I'll turn on the preview checkbox so that we can see what we're doing. And I better move this dialogue box out of the way. And you'll see over here I now have a big black line going through the cell. Of course, I might adjust the line a little bit to make it prettier. For example, let's change to cyan and let's make it a…

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