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Formatting a table - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training
Formatting a table
- [Instructor] Let's make this table look a tad bit better. The basic tool for formatting a table is the Table Options dialogue box, and you can get there by placing your text cursor anywhere inside the table. Then go to the Table menu and choose Table Options and then choose Table Setup. The Table Options dialogue box gives you a lot of control over your tables, but we're just going to look at the most important features here, like the table border in the middle. This lets us control what the border looks like around the outside edges of the table. Right now, it shows a one-point black stroke, but I want to change it to have no stroke. To do that, you can change the color to none. Okay, now let's go look at some of the other tabs along the top of the dialog box. For example, fills. This is the most fun. Let's change the Alternating Pattern pop-up menu here to, say, every other row. Now, we'll turn on the Preview check…
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