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In this course, you will learn:
- How to create and format tables in new ways.
- How to create special alternating fills and interesting stroke patterns; use graphic cells to integrate images into your tables; change the shape of a table with anchored shapes; and highlight columns to draw the eye to important data.
- How to use tables in unique ways such as creating infographics and complex page layouts.
Syllabus:
Introduction
1. Understanding Table Fundamentals
- Understanding the "golden rules"
- Accessing table commands
- Navigating and selecting tables
- Where do tables come from?
2. Basic Table Formatting
- Positioning tables in a text frame
- Setting table borders
- Setting header and footer rows
- Working with alternating fills
- Working with alternating strokes
3. Basic Cell Formatting
- Setting row height and column width
- Formatting text in a cell
- Positioning text in a cell
- Mastering row and column strokes
- Working with cell fills
- Setting diagonal lines in tables
4. Other Table Formatting Techniques
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Moving rows and columns
- Merging and splitting cells
- Creating tables with rounded-corner borders
- Rotating text at 90-degree angles
- Rotating text at 45-degree angles
- Using gradients in tables
- Converting lists to tables
- Dealing with overset text in table cells
5. Working with Graphics in Tables
- Understanding graphic cells
- Resizing graphics in tables
- Modifying graphic cell frames
- Converting cells to graphic frames and back
6. Table and Cell Styles
- Understanding the limitations of table and cell styles
- Setting up and applying text cell styles
- Working with cell style overrides
- Setting up and applying table styles
- Using cell styles to clean up table styles
- Sharing and re-using table and cell styles
7. Updating Tables
- Working with linked Word and Excel documents
- Using Cut and Paste to update table data
8. Special Table Effects
- Using anchored shapes to change cell corners
- Creating infographics with tables
- Highlighting a column
- Setting up standalone columns
9. Tables That Don't Look Like Tables
- Simplifying complex text frames with tables
- Setting up images and captions with tables
- Creating pull quotes and design objects using tables
10. Exporting Tables to EPUB and HTML
- Understanding best practices
- Converting tables to graphics for export
