Hi there. In this video we're going to look at tables in InDesign.
We're going to make this table here with a little lines and style a little bit.
We're also going to add ugly alternating rows just to prove we can,
maybe make it a little easier to understand for larger tables. Let's get going.
First of all, we're going to put in our table,
and mine it's on page 12.
We're looking for profitability.
I don't really mind where it goes.
We're going to put our cursor in here,
put a returner and it's going to go right here.
Next step, go up to table and go to "Insert Table."
In this case, we're going to have five and two and it's remembered
that from the last time I did this when I was prepping for this example.
You're probably going to say three and three by default,
but just yeah, five and two is going to work for us in this case.
We're not going to use header and footer rows.
They are not more complicated and really good when you're doing tables
that may be crossing over lots of pages.
So pages and pages of
a big table and we'll look at that in our advanced and design course.
But for the moment, 99 times out of a 100,
you're just going to use body rows and columns.
We're going to fake edit it don't get me wrong,
but we don't want to use these specialized heating rows.
Let's click "OK." Nicely,
it fits in where we need it to be.
If you're creating one that's not part of a text box,
I'm going to go down to so blank box,
blank page down in here somewhere and just go,
I've got nothing selected.
Go to table, create table.
Again, I can just click OK and then I can drag it out to any size I need.
It's up to you how you get it created.
But I'm going to jump up to page 12,
that little shortcut there was command J and K,
or control J on a PC.
I typed in 12 and it returned.
I caught myself doing shortcuts.
What we're going to do is just some basic stuff.
This first column here, I want to join.
I'm going to select these two and along the top here we get some basic table options.
What I want to do is this one little icon here,
it's got a little cross between it. It's called Merge cells.
I'm going to select both of these two,
drag across them and click "Merge cells."
This one's going to be like 2019 turnover.
We'll put it in US $.
I'm just going to add some details here.
That might even have been painfully slow when you were watching it on fast mode.
Took me ages and I just thought that I'm not sure why.
But what we want to do a couple things is I want to
align this because it doesn't have to be as long a column will these quarters.
But I want this to be a bit bigger.
You can click hold and drag it.
I have to be using my type tool to do these amines.
I can drag this across.
Then what I'm going to do is drag this side across so it lines up with the column again.
To do the styling, I'm going to quickly select it all and pick my paragraph style.
I'm going to go to Styles,
paragraph styles, and I'll pick body copy to get started.
Now, highlight this one here and I'm just going to go through
and I'll pick bold and I'll go to color.
Next thing I want to do is I want to play around with these lines.
I just want the vertical more horizontal lines.
Going's going left to right.
I want to get rid of these tall ones here and the ones at the top and the bottom.
I just want lines through the middle to help read it,
to make it look a little nicer.
Now we're going to work with the borders around tables and guess what?
It's not that easy. It's a little bit fiddly is what it is.
I'm going to select all of these.
You can use your type tool and just click and drag across all of these.
Or you can click anywhere and see this little arrow that just appears.
You just click that, either way.
What we need to do now is either say this version or that's
quite small and how to use this one is big and how to use.
I'm going to use the stroke panel one.
You can use as tiny one up the top here.
What I need to do is I need to, first of all,
activate all the lines by making them all go blue.
Because by default they're just the tops,
bottoms left and rights,
I want these ones in the middle as well.
I've got them all, here's me leaning in really close to the screen to see.
I think I've got them all. I'm going to say
I'd like them all so that you've done nothing now,
you just highlighted them to say,
"The next thing I'm going to do is going to
apply to all the blue bits that I've got selected."
I'm going to say I'd like them all to be zero points.
Now if I click in here,
they all have no lines around the outside.
A little bit weird because we're in working mode.
So it gives you this blue hint.
That's not actually there when print,
if I go to the black selection tool,
hit "W", you'll see that not actually there.
They are just there like a visual guide.
Next thing I'd like to do, select them all again,
is I'm going to say I want just
to add a thickness to the lines going through left and right.
So it's just these middle ones here.
I'm going to have to try and lean in close again,
turn all the blue lines off.
Just so close.
Lots of clicking. Just this one here.
Just this one going through the middle,
not the outside ones, just the middle one.
I'd like to give it a stroke of say,
0.5 and I'd like that stroke over here to be a color of,
I'll use the dark green, mint green.
Now let's look at it. Click off,
hit W, you've got lines through the middle only.
Now if you need to work on just one cell,
let's say you need to,
this is the total for one and you need to do a select all,
command A, no you don't.
You just drag across it all until eventually you get the whole cell.
I want the whole thing, just keep dragging,
drag down a little bit and you'll grab the whole cell.
Now I can say things like,
can see I've just got the one cell selected.
Now I could say actually I want to give it a weight of two points.
I want to make it red because it's the total and it's looking horrible.
But you get the idea.
You can select the whole thing,
do the whole thing, do little bits.
I'm going to click "Undo."
Get rid of that. One thing you might do in tables is play around with one of the styles.
Let's select it all again.
A little layer in the corner.
It's a little bit harder to see and I turn my W back on so we can see the edges.
There you are. Grab it all.
Go up to table,
let's go to table options and we're going to do this alternating fills.
This can be handy.
Our table is pretty easy to understand,
but you might do this where you go alternating fills,
alternating pattern is going to be Every Other Row, turn preview on.
You can see in the background there what it's doing.
It's going to say, "The first row is black and the second row is none."
I'm going to click "OK." It just means that's going to happen.
Every alternating row is going to be this doc.
It's going to be black but it's sit to attempt.
Let's have a little look again and let's go to table.
Table options, alternating fills and previews on,
you see it set to black and 20 percent.
What I might do actually is just set that to,
yellow and set that to a tint of 100 percent.
So it's not so wishy washy.
You can also say I'd like to skip the first row because I don't like to leave that white.
Great. Let's click "OK." We've got a table.
I think I liked it before just the lines.
But we've learned alternating fills as well.
That's how to create and style our own table.
Let's look in the next video how to bring in something from Word or Excel.