BETTER TABLE CONTROL FEATURES!!!!
this!!! Complete overhaul to tables in InDesign !!!!! https://forums.adobe.com/message/10898726
IT IS SO ON THE MONEY and I am sure there are other great suggestions here, but seriously indesign tables are pathetic
right now I am especially vexed by this fact that Joe Jacob writes:
"Why is it that the total width/height of a table cannot be constrained to the size of the bounding box it's in? Why, when the table exceeds these limits, does a column or row just disappear? "
"Why am I left just eyeballing it to make sure my table is neat and evenly spaced out? Why isn't there an option to disallow columns/rows to disappear when they exceed the limits - instead of just adjusting their own width/height to allow room? It's 2019. Tables have been like this for years. Adobe is a huge corporation with millions in revenue - why can't they just assign someone to write a new table system?"
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Jurgen Konings
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Tables drive me mad! it makes me want to use Microsoft Word instead :o
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Geoff
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Snap in Indesign is the worst in the world. It's impossinble to format tables. It is impossible to find tutorials or instructions beyond the bleeding obvious.
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Kayla
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100% agree with this, I never even use the Table function in indesign because I always end up incredibly frustrated - I just create individual text boxes for each cell, which is very time consuming but at the very least allows me to drag the whole table to resize it. I don't understand why that, at the very least, isn't how the Table function works - what is even the point of being able to select the whole table if dragging it does nothing but create a bunch of blank space or hide content? It makes NO sense to me.
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Danielle Mowbray-Jones
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A complete overhaul would be greatly appreciated. Tables are one of those BASICS that just never seem to be touched. I was happy to see they did SOMETHING with the tables a year or two ago, being able to reorganize the row or column using drag, has been a huge help. That said, we need more fluid functionalities like that. Even something as seemingly simple as my alternating row fills messing up entirely when a row needs to be removed. I can't tell you how many times I just wanted to never make a table in indesign again.
This old car needs to be serviced! You have a lot of designers dropping out of Adobe, do yourselves a favor and get these old things cleaned up before the next generation is still complaining about how antiquated it is like Quark. -
Anonymous
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Yep, tables are awful. Very flaky with styles, and we can't we set a row height/column width in a style?????
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Steve Jenks
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How about being able to define the total width and height of a table when creating it.
That would be really useful, rather than eyeballing it.
A snap to text box/column width would also be appreciated.