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Formatting a table

Formatting a table - InDesign Tutorial

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Formatting a table

- [Instructor] Let's make this table look a tad bit better. The basic tool for formatting a table is the table options dialogue box, and you can get there by placing your text cursor anywhere inside of a table, then going to the table menu, come down to table options, and then choose table setup. The table options dialogue box gives you a lot of control over your tables, but we're just going to take a look at the most important features here. Like the table border, that is, what is the border look like around the outside edges of my table? Right now, it shows a one point black stroke around the outside edges of this table. Let's go ahead and change it to have no stroke. To do that, you can change the color to none. Now let's go look at some of the other tabs along the top of this dialogue box. How about fills? That's the most fun. Let's change the alternating pattern pop-up menu to every other row. Also, I'm…

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