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Using Cut and Paste to update table data

Using Cut and Paste to update table data - InDesign Tutorial

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Using Cut and Paste to update table data

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- There are any number of reasons you may need to update the information in an InDesign table. If the original table source was an Excel or Word table document, you can link to those documents and update them via the links panel which we discussed in another video. But sometimes the information you need to update isn't in an Excel file or a Word document. Maybe it came as an email attachment or from a website, or maybe you don't really need to update an entire table, you just need to change a few rows or columns of information. Fortunately, there's a pretty good alternative to linking files. Turns out InDesign is pretty smart about letting you cut and paste tab delimited text into a table to update it. And actually, in some ways, it's easier than updating a linked file. Let me show you how it works. I'm going to switch from normal to preview mode by pressing the letter W. And I need to put some updates in this table that are in a tab delimited text file. So the first thing I'm going…

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