I want to be able to select multiple table rows that are not connected.
I would like the ability to select multiple table rows that are not connected. For example, I expected to be able to CTRL+Select the rows I want to change the fill color. For example, if I have 20 rows, but I want to select Row 2, 6, 8, 14, and 17 so that I am able to edit the fill color/text color/row height, etc. in those rows only. Currently, I have to do them all individually and in much larger tables (50+ rows.) It's such a pain!
The ability to fill every other row, or every third, etc. in the table styles is handy, but it isn't effective in every situation.
Thanks for raising this feature ask. We are reviewing this
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Andre
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Surely this isn't hard to implement, and it would make formatting tables a lot easier!
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Bryanna Chapeskie commented
This doesn't quite solve the ability to select alternating rows in indesign, but I've found using the colour picker tool to be a much quicker way to change the fill of alternating rows.
Change the fill of a single row to the colour you want, then grab your colour picker tool, and select that colour. You'll now see your colour picker icon has flipped and has a small "T" next to it. You can use this mode to go row by row to quickly change the colour of the fill to match the colour you initially selected in the rows desired. It's still a bit of a manual process, but I find it way faster than highlighting and manually changing the colour from your watches.
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Reuben Politi commented
I just cast the 250th vote. That must entitle us to some progress, no?
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Jeanette Bøgelund Bentzen commented
Has this really not been solved yet? Would really save alot of time! 🙏🏻
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Philip Byrne
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Selecting noncontiguous columns is also needed, i.e., so you can distribute column width evenly. This has been asked for by long-term users for years.
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Anonymous
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I'm still waiting Adobe....
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Colin Flashman
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Direct competitor software - Serif Affinity Publisher - can do this right now. It is called "discontiguous selections". Demonstration is here: https://youtu.be/8PiWMNzoVLQ?t=883
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Jim Oakes commented
So how's that review that you responded to in mid-2019 going? It's almost 2022. Probably the most frustrating and time consuming (lack of) feature in InDesign.
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Donna
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Indesign users have been asking for this feature for 5 years....WHEN will it exist?
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Eric
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The only good thing about this page is knowing that I'm not the only one baffled that this feature doesn't exist yet.
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Anonymous
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Would also LOVE this feature! It would save so much time.
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Bryan
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Can we please have this, ctrl mouse click for selection would be amazing, a huge amount of my work is table based and changing the colour of a row as a result of a design review is very time consuming
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Bryce
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YES this please and find change for tables too
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Anonymous
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I'm also in need of this feature
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Anonymous
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Yes! And while you're at it, make it also possible to select multiple paragraphs or lines or words of text that are not connected.
(Sometimes it's good to borrow from Word).
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Anonymous
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is this feature still not in place!!??
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Laura T
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ALSO: The ability to select rows/columns/cells from multiple separate tables.
If I've got 20 tables on a page and I need to make a series of changes to a few cells in every table, currently I've got to go through the whole process for every. single. (non-contiguous) cell. Why can't I just select all of the relevant cells and go through those changes once?
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Daniel Steiger
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It would also be nice, if you can mark several character or word and change them in a different style
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Anonymous
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How has it taken almost TWO YEARS for this idea even to be responded to????? And why wasn't it just inbuilt in the first place?
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Michael Moik
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Please add, would be super helpful. On the contrary, also a reason for designers to start interconnecting Excel and InDesign ;)