InDesign CS5 Bible- P14: InDesign is a powerful tool that serves as the standard program for professional layout and design. The latest version boasts a variety of updates and enhancements. Packed with real-world examples and written by industry expert Galen Gruman, this in-depth resource clearly explains how InDesign CS5 allows for better typography and transparency features, speedier performance, and more user control than any other layout program. | Chapter 25 Setting Up Tabs and Tables FIGURE The General pane of the New Cell Style dialog box When creating table styles you can also have the table style automatically apply the cell styles of your choosing to the following table elements header rows footer rows body rows the leftmost column and the rightmost column. When creating cell styles you can choose a paragraph style to be automatically applied to text in cells using the style. Cross-Reference The controls for applying modifying and managing table and cell styles are the same as for paragraph and character styles so refer to Chapter 7 for details on these common functions. Converting Tabs to Tables Often you ll have a table done using tabs whether imported from a word processor or originally created in InDesign with tabs that you want to convert to a real InDesign table. That s easy. Select the tabbed text you want to convert and choose Table C Convert Text to Table. You get the Convert Text to Table dialog box. In the Convert Text to Table dialog box you can choose a Column Separator Tab Comma Paragraph or a text string you type in the field or a Row Separator same options . Although most textual data uses tabs to separate columns and paragraphs to separate rows you may encounter other data that uses something else. For example spreadsheets and databases often save data so that commas separate columns rather than tabs. That s why InDesign lets you choose the separator characters before conversion. You can also apply a table style to apply to the converted text. 605 Part VI Business Document Fundamentals During the conversion InDesign formats the table using the standard settings the current text formatting and the default cell insets and stroke types. You can then adjust the table using the tools covered earlier in this chapter. Note that the conversion treats all rows as body rows. You can also convert a table to text by selecting multiple cells or an entire table as described earlier and choosing
