1 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:11,220 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at tables in InDesign. 2 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:15,700 We're going to make this table here with a little lines and style a little bit. 3 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:20,720 We're also going to add ugly alternating rows just to prove we can, 4 00:00:20,715 --> 00:00:25,665 maybe make it a little easier to understand for larger tables. Let's get going. 5 00:00:25,665 --> 00:00:28,005 First of all, we're going to put in our table, 6 00:00:28,005 --> 00:00:29,065 and mine it's on page 12. 7 00:00:29,060 --> 00:00:30,400 We're looking for profitability. 8 00:00:30,395 --> 00:00:32,075 I don't really mind where it goes. 9 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:33,695 We're going to put our cursor in here, 10 00:00:33,695 --> 00:00:36,335 put a returner and it's going to go right here. 11 00:00:36,335 --> 00:00:39,605 Next step, go up to table and go to "Insert Table." 12 00:00:39,605 --> 00:00:43,735 In this case, we're going to have five and two and it's remembered 13 00:00:43,730 --> 00:00:47,360 that from the last time I did this when I was prepping for this example. 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,460 You're probably going to say three and three by default, 15 00:00:49,460 --> 00:00:52,190 but just yeah, five and two is going to work for us in this case. 16 00:00:52,190 --> 00:00:54,610 We're not going to use header and footer rows. 17 00:00:54,605 --> 00:00:57,655 They are not more complicated and really good when you're doing tables 18 00:00:57,650 --> 00:01:00,730 that may be crossing over lots of pages. 19 00:01:00,725 --> 00:01:02,095 So pages and pages of 20 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:05,510 a big table and we'll look at that in our advanced and design course. 21 00:01:05,510 --> 00:01:08,120 But for the moment, 99 times out of a 100, 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,860 you're just going to use body rows and columns. 23 00:01:09,860 --> 00:01:11,330 We're going to fake edit it don't get me wrong, 24 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:13,780 but we don't want to use these specialized heating rows. 25 00:01:13,775 --> 00:01:15,545 Let's click "OK." Nicely, 26 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:17,500 it fits in where we need it to be. 27 00:01:17,495 --> 00:01:19,595 If you're creating one that's not part of a text box, 28 00:01:19,590 --> 00:01:21,670 I'm going to go down to so blank box, 29 00:01:21,665 --> 00:01:24,405 blank page down in here somewhere and just go, 30 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,860 I've got nothing selected. 31 00:01:25,855 --> 00:01:28,195 Go to table, create table. 32 00:01:28,190 --> 00:01:31,900 Again, I can just click OK and then I can drag it out to any size I need. 33 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:33,390 It's up to you how you get it created. 34 00:01:33,390 --> 00:01:35,110 But I'm going to jump up to page 12, 35 00:01:35,105 --> 00:01:37,865 that little shortcut there was command J and K, 36 00:01:37,865 --> 00:01:39,545 or control J on a PC. 37 00:01:39,545 --> 00:01:41,675 I typed in 12 and it returned. 38 00:01:41,675 --> 00:01:44,185 I caught myself doing shortcuts. 39 00:01:44,185 --> 00:01:47,115 What we're going to do is just some basic stuff. 40 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:49,605 This first column here, I want to join. 41 00:01:49,605 --> 00:01:54,305 I'm going to select these two and along the top here we get some basic table options. 42 00:01:54,305 --> 00:01:56,395 What I want to do is this one little icon here, 43 00:01:56,390 --> 00:01:58,690 it's got a little cross between it. It's called Merge cells. 44 00:01:58,690 --> 00:02:00,670 I'm going to select both of these two, 45 00:02:00,665 --> 00:02:02,965 drag across them and click "Merge cells." 46 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:08,320 This one's going to be like 2019 turnover. 47 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,530 We'll put it in US $. 48 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:13,330 I'm just going to add some details here. 49 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,610 That might even have been painfully slow when you were watching it on fast mode. 50 00:02:25,610 --> 00:02:28,420 Took me ages and I just thought that I'm not sure why. 51 00:02:28,415 --> 00:02:31,495 But what we want to do a couple things is I want to 52 00:02:31,490 --> 00:02:34,730 align this because it doesn't have to be as long a column will these quarters. 53 00:02:34,730 --> 00:02:36,430 But I want this to be a bit bigger. 54 00:02:36,425 --> 00:02:37,945 You can click hold and drag it. 55 00:02:37,940 --> 00:02:40,910 I have to be using my type tool to do these amines. 56 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:42,440 I can drag this across. 57 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,630 Then what I'm going to do is drag this side across so it lines up with the column again. 58 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:50,790 To do the styling, I'm going to quickly select it all and pick my paragraph style. 59 00:02:50,790 --> 00:02:52,350 I'm going to go to Styles, 60 00:02:52,354 --> 00:02:55,054 paragraph styles, and I'll pick body copy to get started. 61 00:02:55,050 --> 00:02:58,070 Now, highlight this one here and I'm just going to go through 62 00:02:58,070 --> 00:03:02,810 and I'll pick bold and I'll go to color. 63 00:03:02,805 --> 00:03:06,655 Next thing I want to do is I want to play around with these lines. 64 00:03:06,650 --> 00:03:10,450 I just want the vertical more horizontal lines. 65 00:03:10,445 --> 00:03:12,145 Going's going left to right. 66 00:03:12,140 --> 00:03:15,640 I want to get rid of these tall ones here and the ones at the top and the bottom. 67 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:17,965 I just want lines through the middle to help read it, 68 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,740 to make it look a little nicer. 69 00:03:19,740 --> 00:03:23,290 Now we're going to work with the borders around tables and guess what? 70 00:03:23,290 --> 00:03:26,720 It's not that easy. It's a little bit fiddly is what it is. 71 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,150 I'm going to select all of these. 72 00:03:28,150 --> 00:03:31,180 You can use your type tool and just click and drag across all of these. 73 00:03:31,175 --> 00:03:34,765 Or you can click anywhere and see this little arrow that just appears. 74 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,020 You just click that, either way. 75 00:03:37,015 --> 00:03:40,285 What we need to do now is either say this version or that's 76 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,870 quite small and how to use this one is big and how to use. 77 00:03:43,865 --> 00:03:45,995 I'm going to use the stroke panel one. 78 00:03:45,995 --> 00:03:47,855 You can use as tiny one up the top here. 79 00:03:47,855 --> 00:03:50,245 What I need to do is I need to, first of all, 80 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,990 activate all the lines by making them all go blue. 81 00:03:52,985 --> 00:03:54,805 Because by default they're just the tops, 82 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,880 bottoms left and rights, 83 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:57,480 I want these ones in the middle as well. 84 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,270 I've got them all, here's me leaning in really close to the screen to see. 85 00:04:02,270 --> 00:04:04,190 I think I've got them all. I'm going to say 86 00:04:04,190 --> 00:04:05,870 I'd like them all so that you've done nothing now, 87 00:04:05,870 --> 00:04:07,750 you just highlighted them to say, 88 00:04:07,745 --> 00:04:09,415 "The next thing I'm going to do is going to 89 00:04:09,410 --> 00:04:11,810 apply to all the blue bits that I've got selected." 90 00:04:11,810 --> 00:04:14,510 I'm going to say I'd like them all to be zero points. 91 00:04:14,510 --> 00:04:15,880 Now if I click in here, 92 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,570 they all have no lines around the outside. 93 00:04:18,565 --> 00:04:21,575 A little bit weird because we're in working mode. 94 00:04:21,570 --> 00:04:23,840 So it gives you this blue hint. 95 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:25,520 That's not actually there when print, 96 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,910 if I go to the black selection tool, 97 00:04:27,905 --> 00:04:29,975 hit "W", you'll see that not actually there. 98 00:04:29,975 --> 00:04:31,865 They are just there like a visual guide. 99 00:04:31,865 --> 00:04:34,025 Next thing I'd like to do, select them all again, 100 00:04:34,025 --> 00:04:36,655 is I'm going to say I want just 101 00:04:36,650 --> 00:04:39,200 to add a thickness to the lines going through left and right. 102 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,130 So it's just these middle ones here. 103 00:04:41,130 --> 00:04:43,420 I'm going to have to try and lean in close again, 104 00:04:43,415 --> 00:04:45,315 turn all the blue lines off. 105 00:04:45,310 --> 00:04:50,370 Just so close. 106 00:04:50,370 --> 00:04:53,550 Lots of clicking. Just this one here. 107 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:55,310 Just this one going through the middle, 108 00:04:55,310 --> 00:04:56,640 not the outside ones, just the middle one. 109 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,000 I'd like to give it a stroke of say, 110 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,850 0.5 and I'd like that stroke over here to be a color of, 111 00:05:03,850 --> 00:05:07,950 I'll use the dark green, mint green. 112 00:05:07,950 --> 00:05:10,370 Now let's look at it. Click off, 113 00:05:10,365 --> 00:05:13,925 hit W, you've got lines through the middle only. 114 00:05:13,925 --> 00:05:15,955 Now if you need to work on just one cell, 115 00:05:15,950 --> 00:05:17,020 let's say you need to, 116 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:21,170 this is the total for one and you need to do a select all, 117 00:05:21,170 --> 00:05:22,720 command A, no you don't. 118 00:05:22,715 --> 00:05:26,485 You just drag across it all until eventually you get the whole cell. 119 00:05:26,485 --> 00:05:28,625 I want the whole thing, just keep dragging, 120 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:31,790 drag down a little bit and you'll grab the whole cell. 121 00:05:31,790 --> 00:05:33,800 Now I can say things like, 122 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,070 can see I've just got the one cell selected. 123 00:05:36,065 --> 00:05:39,725 Now I could say actually I want to give it a weight of two points. 124 00:05:39,725 --> 00:05:43,985 I want to make it red because it's the total and it's looking horrible. 125 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:45,230 But you get the idea. 126 00:05:45,225 --> 00:05:46,505 You can select the whole thing, 127 00:05:46,505 --> 00:05:48,545 do the whole thing, do little bits. 128 00:05:48,545 --> 00:05:50,035 I'm going to click "Undo." 129 00:05:50,030 --> 00:05:55,690 Get rid of that. One thing you might do in tables is play around with one of the styles. 130 00:05:55,685 --> 00:05:57,325 Let's select it all again. 131 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,830 A little layer in the corner. 132 00:05:58,830 --> 00:06:02,690 It's a little bit harder to see and I turn my W back on so we can see the edges. 133 00:06:02,685 --> 00:06:04,455 There you are. Grab it all. 134 00:06:04,455 --> 00:06:05,685 Go up to table, 135 00:06:05,684 --> 00:06:09,904 let's go to table options and we're going to do this alternating fills. 136 00:06:09,905 --> 00:06:11,455 This can be handy. 137 00:06:11,450 --> 00:06:13,400 Our table is pretty easy to understand, 138 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,910 but you might do this where you go alternating fills, 139 00:06:15,905 --> 00:06:19,745 alternating pattern is going to be Every Other Row, turn preview on. 140 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:21,530 You can see in the background there what it's doing. 141 00:06:21,530 --> 00:06:24,940 It's going to say, "The first row is black and the second row is none." 142 00:06:24,935 --> 00:06:28,045 I'm going to click "OK." It just means that's going to happen. 143 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,000 Every alternating row is going to be this doc. 144 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,230 It's going to be black but it's sit to attempt. 145 00:06:33,230 --> 00:06:36,100 Let's have a little look again and let's go to table. 146 00:06:36,095 --> 00:06:40,445 Table options, alternating fills and previews on, 147 00:06:40,445 --> 00:06:42,235 you see it set to black and 20 percent. 148 00:06:42,230 --> 00:06:44,800 What I might do actually is just set that to, 149 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:47,875 yellow and set that to a tint of 100 percent. 150 00:06:47,870 --> 00:06:49,720 So it's not so wishy washy. 151 00:06:49,715 --> 00:06:55,315 You can also say I'd like to skip the first row because I don't like to leave that white. 152 00:06:55,315 --> 00:06:58,785 Great. Let's click "OK." We've got a table. 153 00:06:58,785 --> 00:07:00,915 I think I liked it before just the lines. 154 00:07:00,915 --> 00:07:03,535 But we've learned alternating fills as well. 155 00:07:03,530 --> 00:07:06,670 That's how to create and style our own table. 156 00:07:06,665 --> 00:07:11,465 Let's look in the next video how to bring in something from Word or Excel.