How to Make Tables in InDesign

Adobe InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Suite family of applications and is used for creating documents for print and web media. In this tutorial you will successfully add tables to your InDesign document.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe InDesign

Adding Tables to Your Document

1. 
    

   Launch Adobe InDesign from your computer and open an existing document or create a new layout.

2. 
    

   Create a new text box about the size of the table you want to add.

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   Select inside the text box and go to the Table menu and click on Insert Table.

4. 
    

   Enter the parameters for your new table. You may add header and footer rows or columns to make your data easier to read.

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   You may change the visual appearance of your table by selecting the table and going to the Table menu, selecting Table Options, and clicking on Table Setup. Among the things you can change are the border color and width and column and row spacing.

Tips & Warnings

• Creating tables in InDesign are easy if there is not a lot of complex data. Programs like Microsoft Excel are designed to create tables and may be a better fit for more complex data. You can save those table as a PDF and insert it into your InDesign document.

References

• Create a new table in Adobe InDesign