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Creating a table - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Creating a table
- [Speaker] One of the most difficult design challenges is representing a lot of data clearly. It's easy to throw a bunch of numbers and dates on a page, but to make them readable, you typically need to format it all as a table. Now, InDesign offers a number of features that make table-making, well, not fun, but at least pretty tolerable and sometimes, even interesting. In this movie, I'm going to show you the essentials, just what you need to do to get up and running with tables quickly. Now, the first thing you need to know about tables in InDesign is that they're always anchored inside a text frame, sometimes in the middle of a story or sometimes is the only thing in the frame. Now, I've already made a text frame to insert my table, so let's place our text cursor in there by double clicking with the selection tool. Now, I'll go to the table menu and choose insert table. The insert table dialogue box lets you choose the number of rows and columns, and also specifies header and…
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