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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.

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  • A. Drayton commented  ·   ·  Report

    HOW is this CTRL+Select not a feature yet???? I'm working on a beast of schedule with over 300 events and literally have to select the rows individually. :-/ Like the user below said, if we can do this is Microsoft Office, there's no justification or excuse for this feature not being available in this pricey publishing software. And now that you've gone subscription-based, we're paying 10x more than when we could purchase the disks back in the day. C'mon guys, it's 2019...listen to your customers. :-|

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be a homerun. Please get this feature added to InDesign.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This has been a necessary function since the beginning of InDesign. C'mon--if a person can perform this function in Microsoft Excel, then Adobe can make this update possible!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    So bummed that this is not a thing yet. Please update this Adobe!

  • Bruno Mancini commented  ·   ·  Report

    So many unnecessary features when essential ones like this are still pending. Please, Adobe !!

  • Paul commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a much-needed feature. Developers, please stop faffing around with uneccessary 'improvements' and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, pleeeease get this feature working - on a 250pp doc that is all-tabular with 10,000 rows, this would be a miracle of Indesign evolution.

  • Yvonne commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm dying without this feature. Trying to format a 5 page table with alternating shaded rows is taking me forever.

  • David commented  ·   ·  Report

    Not being able to select multiple non-adjacent rows creates unnecessary inefficiency. Formatting tables would be much faster if we could do this.

  • ofogh design commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why can not I do this on the InDesign ?! Why does Word have such a possibility?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a must have, I would also love to see this!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, absolutely necessary when formatting long tables.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have also run into this issue several times.

  • Jen commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be nice to be able to select nonadjacent cells as well. Or select multiples and deselect some.

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