Create a table

- [Instructor] One of the most difficult design challenges…is representing a lot of data clearly.…It's easy to throw a bunch of numbers and dates on page but…to make them readable you typically need…to format it all as a table.…Now InDesign offers a number of features that make table…making well not fun, but at least pretty tolerable…and sometimes even interesting.…My friend, Diane Burns, has done a whole title on making…cool looking tables here in the online training library,…called InDesign Tables.…

You should definitely check that out,…but in the mean time I'm going to show you the essentials.…Just what you need to do to get up…and running with tables quickly.…Now the first thing you need to know…about tables in InDesign is that…they are always anchored inside of a text frame.…Sometimes in the middle of a story or sometimes as the only…thing in a text frame, but there has to be a text frame.…So I'm going to grab my type tool…and draw one out on my page.…Now that I have a frame, I can insert my table.…

So to do that I'll go to my table menu…