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What table and cell styles can and can’t do

What table and cell styles can and can’t do - InDesign Tutorial

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What table and cell styles can and can’t do

- [Instructor] Let's have an overview of table styles and cell styles, what they can do and what they can't do. I'm going to convert this track listing to a table that we'll click to insert my type cursor, select all, table, convert text to table. For the table style I don't already have one created. I'm going to choose no table style to apply to that. Click OK. I now have a table that has columns, is has rows and it has cells. You can select the cells by pressing the escape key. I'm going to select the whole table, and I'm going to work on its border, its row strokes and its column strokes. These are all attributes that can be combined in a table style. I'll come to my preview proxy, triple click on there to make sure that all of those lines are blue, and then I'll set them all to none. Next, I'll come to my table menu, table options, alternating fields. Every other row, alternating between black, 20% and none. I'm now going to create a table style based on my selection. And I'll…

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