Creating Tables

A few years ago, InDesign introduced tables to the world of page layout, allowing you to work with tables—complete with editable content and easy formatting—just as easily as working with any other text content. Tables can flow from frame to frame and page to page, intermingled with text threads, just like any other text content in a layout.

You have several options for getting table content into an InDesign layout:

  • Creating a table from scratch. You can create a text frame, insert the text cursor, and choose Table > Insert Table to create tables from scratch with InDesign and then type the data by hand, but you’re not likely to use this method in a template workflow. It’s a tedious, error-prone process that doesn’t lend itself ...

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