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Modifying graphic cell frames - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Tables
Modifying graphic cell frames
- A graphic cell in an InDesign table creates this strange kind of graphic frame hybrid. It's part of a table. If we resize a table cell, the frame resizes with it. If we select the graphic frame, we can use some table commands for fitting to change its size, and we can even apply special effects. But we also have a graphics frame just sitting there. And these graphics frames, even when they're sitting in tables, share many characteristics with good old regular graphics frames. Let me show you a few examples. I'm going to go into this next cell and select it by pressing the Escape key. And I'm going to convert it to a graphic cell. So now I have a regular graphics frame here. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. And there's some interesting things that we can do with this, especially with the frame edges, even though they're attached to the edge of the table cell. By default, when we first convert a cell to a graphics frame, the frame has no stroke or fill. But we can certainly give it…
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