WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:11.220 Hi there. In this video we're going to look at tables in InDesign. 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. 00:00:15.700 --> 00:00:20.715 We're also going to add ugly alternating rows just to prove we can, 00:00:20.715 --> 00:00:25.665 maybe make it a little easier to understand for larger tables. Let's get going. 00:00:25.665 --> 00:00:28.005 First of all, we're going to put in our table, 00:00:28.005 --> 00:00:29.060 and mine it's on page 12. 00:00:29.060 --> 00:00:30.395 We're looking for profitability. 00:00:30.395 --> 00:00:32.075 I don't really mind where it goes. 00:00:32.075 --> 00:00:33.695 We're going to put our cursor in here, 00:00:33.695 --> 00:00:36.335 put a returner and it's going to go right here. 00:00:36.335 --> 00:00:39.605 Next step, go up to table and go to "Insert Table." 00:00:39.605 --> 00:00:43.730 In this case, we're going to have five and two and it's remembered 00:00:43.730 --> 00:00:47.360 that from the last time I did this when I was prepping for this example. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:49.460 You're probably going to say three and three by default, 00:00:49.460 --> 00:00:52.190 but just yeah, five and two is going to work for us in this case. 00:00:52.190 --> 00:00:54.605 We're not going to use header and footer rows. 00:00:54.605 --> 00:00:57.650 They are not more complicated and really good when you're doing tables 00:00:57.650 --> 00:01:00.725 that may be crossing over lots of pages. 00:01:00.725 --> 00:01:02.090 So pages and pages of 00:01:02.090 --> 00:01:05.510 a big table and we'll look at that in our advanced and design course. 00:01:05.510 --> 00:01:08.120 But for the moment, 99 times out of a 100, 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:09.860 you're just going to use body rows and columns. 00:01:09.860 --> 00:01:11.330 We're going to fake edit it don't get me wrong, 00:01:11.330 --> 00:01:13.775 but we don't want to use these specialized heating rows. 00:01:13.775 --> 00:01:15.540 Let's click "OK." Nicely, 00:01:15.540 --> 00:01:17.495 it fits in where we need it to be. 00:01:17.495 --> 00:01:19.590 If you're creating one that's not part of a text box, 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:21.665 I'm going to go down to so blank box, 00:01:21.665 --> 00:01:24.400 blank page down in here somewhere and just go, 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:25.855 I've got nothing selected. 00:01:25.855 --> 00:01:28.190 Go to table, create table. 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. 00:01:31.900 --> 00:01:33.390 It's up to you how you get it created. 00:01:33.390 --> 00:01:35.105 But I'm going to jump up to page 12, 00:01:35.105 --> 00:01:37.865 that little shortcut there was command J and K, 00:01:37.865 --> 00:01:39.545 or control J on a PC. 00:01:39.545 --> 00:01:41.675 I typed in 12 and it returned. 00:01:41.675 --> 00:01:44.185 I caught myself doing shortcuts. 00:01:44.185 --> 00:01:47.115 What we're going to do is just some basic stuff. 00:01:47.115 --> 00:01:49.605 This first column here, I want to join. 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. 00:01:54.305 --> 00:01:56.390 What I want to do is this one little icon here, 00:01:56.390 --> 00:01:58.690 it's got a little cross between it. It's called Merge cells. 00:01:58.690 --> 00:02:00.665 I'm going to select both of these two, 00:02:00.665 --> 00:02:02.960 drag across them and click "Merge cells." 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:08.320 This one's going to be like 2019 turnover. 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:10.530 We'll put it in US $. 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:13.330 I'm just going to add some details here. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.610 That might even have been painfully slow when you were watching it on fast mode. 00:02:25.610 --> 00:02:28.415 Took me ages and I just thought that I'm not sure why. 00:02:28.415 --> 00:02:31.490 But what we want to do a couple things is I want to 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:34.730 align this because it doesn't have to be as long a column will these quarters. 00:02:34.730 --> 00:02:36.425 But I want this to be a bit bigger. 00:02:36.425 --> 00:02:37.940 You can click hold and drag it. 00:02:37.940 --> 00:02:40.910 I have to be using my type tool to do these amines. 00:02:40.910 --> 00:02:42.440 I can drag this across. 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. 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. 00:02:50.790 --> 00:02:52.354 I'm going to go to Styles, 00:02:52.354 --> 00:02:55.050 paragraph styles, and I'll pick body copy to get started. 00:02:55.050 --> 00:02:58.070 Now, highlight this one here and I'm just going to go through 00:02:58.070 --> 00:03:02.805 and I'll pick bold and I'll go to color. 00:03:02.805 --> 00:03:06.650 Next thing I want to do is I want to play around with these lines. 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:10.445 I just want the vertical more horizontal lines. 00:03:10.445 --> 00:03:12.140 Going's going left to right. 00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:15.635 I want to get rid of these tall ones here and the ones at the top and the bottom. 00:03:15.635 --> 00:03:17.960 I just want lines through the middle to help read it, 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:19.740 to make it look a little nicer. 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:23.290 Now we're going to work with the borders around tables and guess what? 00:03:23.290 --> 00:03:26.720 It's not that easy. It's a little bit fiddly is what it is. 00:03:26.720 --> 00:03:28.150 I'm going to select all of these. 00:03:28.150 --> 00:03:31.175 You can use your type tool and just click and drag across all of these. 00:03:31.175 --> 00:03:34.760 Or you can click anywhere and see this little arrow that just appears. 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:37.015 You just click that, either way. 00:03:37.015 --> 00:03:40.280 What we need to do now is either say this version or that's 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:43.865 quite small and how to use this one is big and how to use. 00:03:43.865 --> 00:03:45.995 I'm going to use the stroke panel one. 00:03:45.995 --> 00:03:47.855 You can use as tiny one up the top here. 00:03:47.855 --> 00:03:50.240 What I need to do is I need to, first of all, 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.985 activate all the lines by making them all go blue. 00:03:52.985 --> 00:03:54.800 Because by default they're just the tops, 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.880 bottoms left and rights, 00:03:55.880 --> 00:03:57.480 I want these ones in the middle as well. 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. 00:04:02.270 --> 00:04:04.190 I think I've got them all. I'm going to say 00:04:04.190 --> 00:04:05.870 I'd like them all so that you've done nothing now, 00:04:05.870 --> 00:04:07.745 you just highlighted them to say, 00:04:07.745 --> 00:04:09.410 "The next thing I'm going to do is going to 00:04:09.410 --> 00:04:11.810 apply to all the blue bits that I've got selected." 00:04:11.810 --> 00:04:14.510 I'm going to say I'd like them all to be zero points. 00:04:14.510 --> 00:04:15.880 Now if I click in here, 00:04:15.880 --> 00:04:18.565 they all have no lines around the outside. 00:04:18.565 --> 00:04:21.570 A little bit weird because we're in working mode. 00:04:21.570 --> 00:04:23.840 So it gives you this blue hint. 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:25.520 That's not actually there when print, 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:27.905 if I go to the black selection tool, 00:04:27.905 --> 00:04:29.975 hit "W", you'll see that not actually there. 00:04:29.975 --> 00:04:31.865 They are just there like a visual guide. 00:04:31.865 --> 00:04:34.025 Next thing I'd like to do, select them all again, 00:04:34.025 --> 00:04:36.650 is I'm going to say I want just 00:04:36.650 --> 00:04:39.200 to add a thickness to the lines going through left and right. 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:41.130 So it's just these middle ones here. 00:04:41.130 --> 00:04:43.415 I'm going to have to try and lean in close again, 00:04:43.415 --> 00:04:45.310 turn all the blue lines off. 00:04:45.310 --> 00:04:50.370 Just so close. 00:04:50.370 --> 00:04:53.550 Lots of clicking. Just this one here. 00:04:53.550 --> 00:04:55.310 Just this one going through the middle, 00:04:55.310 --> 00:04:56.640 not the outside ones, just the middle one. 00:04:56.640 --> 00:04:59.000 I'd like to give it a stroke of say, 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.850 0.5 and I'd like that stroke over here to be a color of, 00:05:03.850 --> 00:05:07.950 I'll use the dark green, mint green. 00:05:07.950 --> 00:05:10.365 Now let's look at it. Click off, 00:05:10.365 --> 00:05:13.925 hit W, you've got lines through the middle only. 00:05:13.925 --> 00:05:15.950 Now if you need to work on just one cell, 00:05:15.950 --> 00:05:17.020 let's say you need to, 00:05:17.020 --> 00:05:21.170 this is the total for one and you need to do a select all, 00:05:21.170 --> 00:05:22.715 command A, no you don't. 00:05:22.715 --> 00:05:26.485 You just drag across it all until eventually you get the whole cell. 00:05:26.485 --> 00:05:28.620 I want the whole thing, just keep dragging, 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:31.790 drag down a little bit and you'll grab the whole cell. 00:05:31.790 --> 00:05:33.800 Now I can say things like, 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.065 can see I've just got the one cell selected. 00:05:36.065 --> 00:05:39.725 Now I could say actually I want to give it a weight of two points. 00:05:39.725 --> 00:05:43.980 I want to make it red because it's the total and it's looking horrible. 00:05:43.980 --> 00:05:45.225 But you get the idea. 00:05:45.225 --> 00:05:46.505 You can select the whole thing, 00:05:46.505 --> 00:05:48.545 do the whole thing, do little bits. 00:05:48.545 --> 00:05:50.030 I'm going to click "Undo." 00:05:50.030 --> 00:05:55.685 Get rid of that. One thing you might do in tables is play around with one of the styles. 00:05:55.685 --> 00:05:57.320 Let's select it all again. 00:05:57.320 --> 00:05:58.830 A little layer in the corner. 00:05:58.830 --> 00:06:02.685 It's a little bit harder to see and I turn my W back on so we can see the edges. 00:06:02.685 --> 00:06:04.455 There you are. Grab it all. 00:06:04.455 --> 00:06:05.684 Go up to table, 00:06:05.684 --> 00:06:09.905 let's go to table options and we're going to do this alternating fills. 00:06:09.905 --> 00:06:11.450 This can be handy. 00:06:11.450 --> 00:06:13.400 Our table is pretty easy to understand, 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:15.905 but you might do this where you go alternating fills, 00:06:15.905 --> 00:06:19.740 alternating pattern is going to be Every Other Row, turn preview on. 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:21.530 You can see in the background there what it's doing. 00:06:21.530 --> 00:06:24.935 It's going to say, "The first row is black and the second row is none." 00:06:24.935 --> 00:06:28.040 I'm going to click "OK." It just means that's going to happen. 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.000 Every alternating row is going to be this doc. 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.230 It's going to be black but it's sit to attempt. 00:06:33.230 --> 00:06:36.095 Let's have a little look again and let's go to table. 00:06:36.095 --> 00:06:40.445 Table options, alternating fills and previews on, 00:06:40.445 --> 00:06:42.230 you see it set to black and 20 percent. 00:06:42.230 --> 00:06:44.795 What I might do actually is just set that to, 00:06:44.795 --> 00:06:47.870 yellow and set that to a tint of 100 percent. 00:06:47.870 --> 00:06:49.715 So it's not so wishy washy. 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. 00:06:55.315 --> 00:06:58.785 Great. Let's click "OK." We've got a table. 00:06:58.785 --> 00:07:00.915 I think I liked it before just the lines. 00:07:00.915 --> 00:07:03.530 But we've learned alternating fills as well. 00:07:03.530 --> 00:07:06.665 That's how to create and style our own table. 00:07:06.665 --> 00:07:11.460 Let's look in the next video how to bring in something from Word or Excel.