From the course: InDesign: Tables
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Converting cells to graphic frames and back - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Tables
Converting cells to graphic frames and back
- It's easy to convert an empty text cell to a graphic cell as we've been doing throughout this course. All I need to do is select the cell and right mouse click to get my Contextual menu and I can convert this cell from a text cell to a graphic cell. There's my graphics frame. But what about when the cell has text in it? I'm going to go over to this next cell here and select it. And let's now convert this to a graphic cell. I'll right mouse click and I don't see the command there. Let's try the Table menu. It's grayed out because you can't do it. I guess the reasoning here is that you don't want to lose your text, so in order to convert this, you have to delete all the text. I can delete the text, then I can select it, and now I can convert it to a graphic cell, but you can't do it if the text is in there. Now, what about converting the other way, from a graphic cell, back to a text cell? Well, if you don't want to keep the graphic, it's really easy, you just select the graphics…
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