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Table and cell styles

Table and cell styles - InDesign Tutorial

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Table and cell styles

- [Instructor] If you want a consistent look for all of the tables in a document or in multiple documents for that matter, you should take a little time and create a table style. And just like paragraph styles and character styles, a table style is just a way of storing a set of attributes, so that you can apply it again and again. Go over to your tool panel, get your zoom tool and click and drag the zoom marquee around the top left corner of the table. Get your type tool and click in this first cell, Insect Name, hit your escape key and that now selects the cell. Let's fill this with a nice rich blue. Go up to your control panel, click the fill pole down, and choose this C98-M-81 and so forth, it's a nice rich blue. Of course we're going to need for the text to be white to contrast with that and I've already made you a paragraph style, so go over to your paragraph styles panel and choose this style, Table Head, and then click back once into the cell and see if you like that. I think…

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