InDesign CS5 Bible- P14

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.
Nội dung trích xuất từ tài liệu:
InDesign CS5 Bible- P14 Chapter 25: Setting Up Tabs and Tables FIGURE 25.12The 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-ReferenceThe controls for applying, modifying, and managing table and cell styles are the same as for paragraph andcharacter styles, so refer to Chapter 7 for details on these common functions. n 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 ➪ 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. 605Part VI: Business Document Fundamentals During the conversion, InDesign formats the table using the standard settings, the current text for- matting, 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 ear- lier, and choosing Table ➪ Convert Table to Text, which opens the Convert Table to Text dialog box. This dialog box presents essentially the same options as the Convert Text to Table dialog box covered previously to specify how the converted data appears. Summary Unlike the typewriter days, creating tabs in a page layout application provides various options for aligning text with a tab and creating tab leaders. The Tabs panel (choose Type ➪ Tabs or press Ô+Shift+T or Ctrl+Shift+T) provides an interactive ruler for positioning tabs along with all the other controls you need. Your ultimate success with using the tabs feature depends on how well you prepared the text in the first place. The key is to position one tab correctly instead of entering several tabs to achieve the correct placement. To create tables in InDesign, you use the Table panel (choose Window ➪ Type & Tables ➪ Table or press Shift+F9) to create the table outline, format cells, merge and split cells, apply colors and rul- ing lines, and do other complex table editing. Table and cell styles let you apply this formatting consistently across multiple tables, as well as update multiple tables simultaneously as formatting changes. You can also convert tabbed text into a table and vice versa.606 CHAPTERUsing Automatic andCustom TextA key area of improvement over the years in InDesign is the increased use of text automation. From the very beginning, InDesign offered IN THIS CHAPTER automatic page numbers so that your folios and cross-references Using automatic page numberswould reflect the current pages as your layout changed. Later versions and section namesenhanced this with section markers, which let you create variable names infolios for your section titles. Working with text variablesStill later came the ability to use data files and merge their contents into a Cross-referencing textlayout to customize your output, similar to how word processors let you cus- Using conditional texttomize labels with their mail-merge feature. Then came variable text, whichgives you more flexibility in where and how you can have InDesign update Working with Grep stylestext automatically throughout a document. Most recently, InDesign added ...