From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
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Creating a table - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2020 Essential Training
Creating a table
- [Instructor] One of the most difficult design challenges is representing a lot of data clearly. It's easy to throw a bunch of numbers and dates on a page, but to make them readable, you typically need to format it all as a table. Now, InDesign offers a number of features that make table making, well, not fun, but at least pretty tolerable, and sometimes, even interesting. My friend, Diane Burns, has done a whole title on making cool looking tables here in the online training library. You should definitely check that out. But in the meantime, I'm going to show you the essentials, just what you need to get up and running with tables quickly. Now, the first thing you need to know about tables in InDesign is that they're always anchored inside a text frame. Sometimes in the middle of a story, or sometimes as the only thing in the frame. Now, I've already made a text frame to insert my table. So let's place our text cursor…
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