InDesign Pro.com: Table width heaven

InDesign Pro.com: Table width heaven: "Thursday, January 18, 2007
Table width heaven

There was a post at InDesignSecrets.com about there not being a Table Width field in the table options pallet (or anywhere else) and ways to get around it. The suggestion made was fine, but I found it to be a bit of a long way around, and use a more simple way. And here it is:

Since InDesign?s fields can do math, all you have to do is select an entire row of your table, and then use this formula in the Column Width field; [total table width you?d like/number of columns in the selected row].

In this example ?3? is the width of the table and ?4? is the number of columns in the selected row.

Basically, you?re putting in the total width you?d like the table to be and dividing it by the number of columns already in the table (in the row you have selected).

InDesign does the math, and voila? table width heaven."

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