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396 The right way to make a table style

396 The right way to make a table style - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

396 The right way to make a table style

- [Instructor] Okay, I need to talk about table styles for a minute because if you have to make more than one or two tables in a document, you really want to take the extra time to make table styles so that you can format them quickly. But here's the problem. Most people start making a table style here, inside the table styles panel, and that seems logical but it's actually the hardest way to do it. Instead, you want to start with paragraph styles, then build cell styles, and then finish with the table style. Now, in this document I've already made a couple of paragraph styles. You can see them here inside the paragraph styles panel. I've also made some cell styles just so that we have some to start with. But let's go ahead and make one more paragraph style. I'll choose new paragraph style from the panel menu and then I'll give it a name. I'll call it engine model. Now I'm going to say this paragraph style will be based on one that I already have. I'll choose table body. But it's…

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