From the course: InDesign: Tables
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Positioning text in a cell - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Tables
Positioning text in a cell
- One way to think of table cells is to think of them as a series of little text frames that sit side-by-side and on top of each other. And just like text frames, table cells have the ability to let us control the positioning of the text within each frame, or each cell in the case of a table. Let's take a look at that. Here we have a table where I've set the row height to be fairly high so we can look at the position of the text within it. First, remember that if we want to control the horizontal positioning of text, we use paragraph formatting controls. If I want to center this label, I simply select the text and use Align Center. But what if I want to control the position of the text within the frame vertically? How do we do that? Well, that's where Cell Options For Text come in. I'm going to select the entire table and we'll go to the Table menu, and under Cell Options, we have Text. Notice that the keyboard shortcut is very similar to that for Text Frame Options, which is command…
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