From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
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Styling a table - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
Styling a table
- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to take a look at styling up this table a little bit, because apart from the fact that it's all scrunched up into two narrow columns, it doesn't look that nice. So, I'm just going to go to my selection tool, here. So I've got nothing selected, not typing. I'm going to tap W, it's got these big thick dark lines around it and not very attractive, so we're going to fix that. So, I'll go back into the document, here, I just tap W to come out of the preview, double click into one of the cells to start editing. And first thing is the size. Now, if I click and drag an individual cell's wall, like so, you can see that I change it like that. I'm just going to undo. However, if I hold down the shift key, while I do it, both cells get resized at the same time. And that's what I want this to occupy, are these three rows of three modules, like so. Now, what we can do is we can go ahead and do…
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Document setup2m 39s
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Create guides2m
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Master pages1m 54s
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Layers2m 12s
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Typography6m 21s
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Place images3m 41s
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Moving assets between layers1m 18s
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Place an Illustrator file1m 41s
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Add a character style3m 40s
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Reposition an image3m 2s
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Formatting text4m 19s
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Threading text1m 21s
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Columns and span3m 42s
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Challenge: Center heading1m 52s
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Solution: Center heading1m 11s
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Add inset spacing2m 42s
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Grid drawing and gaps3m 7s
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Challenge: Grid drawing53s
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Challenge: Thread text1m 44s
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Importing data3m 55s
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Styling a table3m 55s
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Object layer options5m 16s
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Gradient feather4m 2s
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