From the course: InDesign for the In-House Designer

Rearranging rows and columns - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign for the In-House Designer

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Rearranging rows and columns

- [Instructor] If you're faced with the prospect of rearranging rows or columns in a table, you'll be happy to know it's really easy to do. Get your zoom tool and zoom in starting with butterfly and going down to sphinx moth, and go all the way across the table. And when you look at these rows, it becomes apparent that they're really supposed to be alphabetical, but we have these two outliers, six-spotted thrips and soldier beetle. Get your type tool, and just click to the left of six-spotted thrips, say that three times, hold down shift, and click to the left of the soldier beetle row. And where that really should fall, both of these should fall between praying mantis and sphinx moth. When you put your cursor inside any one of the cells of these selected rows, you see your cursor change to this little arrowhead and two little floating cells. And that's your sign that it's ready to transplant. So just click and hold down, and as you drag, in this case downward, you'll see this blue insertion bar. Keep on going until you are between praying mantis and sphinx moth. And once you're there, just let go of your mouse. And there you go, it's that easy. Now double-click on your hand tool, so that you can see the whole page again. And when I look at the header across the top, I've made a decision that it really should be insect name and then habitat, because that's probably what somebody's going to judge by first. Well, will it work in my yard? And then the attractor. So we're going to swap habitat and attractors. So get your type tool, and just hover above habitat, and that selects that column. It wouldn't matter which one you picked, attractors or habitat. But just grab habitat, click and hold down your mouse button, and drag. And this is where I want it to go, between insect name and attractors. And again, you see a blue insertion bar, and then just let go of your mouse. It's that easy. So something that looks really hard for a change turns out to be absolutely painless.

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