With more complex tables, such as those for financial reports, the number of cell styles required becomes very slow to work with.

This is because you may want one column in one colour, another in a different colour, but then a row stroke cuts across all the columns.

At the moment, InDesign only allows you to have one cell style applied per cell. This means that when you've styled your table using one cell style, e.g. a colour, when you then add the other cell style for a row stroke, it will override the first cell style.

You then have to manually go in, cell by cell, and adjust, or create multiple cell styles for multiple variations.

For example:

Orange Cell
Orange Cell with Horizontal Line
Orange Cell with Vertical Line
Blank Cell with Horizontal Line......