
InDesign gives plenty of options to format the layout of the table.Īll table formatting options are accessible from the Table Options dialog box. If you want an even distribution of rows and columns, you can simply select the rows or columns and go to the Table menu and select either Distribute Rows Evenly or Distribute Columns Evenly or both. You can edit the contents of each cell just like how you would edit a regular text frame. We see that InDesign has created a table with the given data. You need to tell InDesign what it should consider as a row and column separator. Go to the Table menu and select the Convert Text to Table… option to open the Convert Text to Table dialog box.
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Select all the contents of the text frame by clicking the text and pressing Ctrl+A on Windows or Command+A on the Mac. In the following example, we will use a simple text file containing information about websites of some pharma companies and convert this into a table. Then, use the Place command to place your data into the text frame. Use the Text tool to create the text frame for your table. You can import a Word, Excel, Access (database) file, or even a text document and convert the contents into a table. Most of the time, it makes sense to convert an existing data into a table. To delete the table, simply drag over the table and press Delete on your keyboard.

If you use the Selection tool, it will move the whole text frame instead of just the row or column. Remember that to drag the rows or columns, you need the Type tool selected on the toolbar as the table is considered to be a text frame. Use Shift and drag outside of the table to adjust the entire table proportionally. Moving the cursor over any of the rows or columns will allow you to resize the row or column. You can now enter data within this table. Clicking OK will create the table within your text frame. Here, you can specify the number of rows and columns that you want in your table and also specify if you need headers and footers for the table. Then go to the Tables menu and select Create Table… to open the Create Table dialog box. To create a new table, simply select the Text tool and draw an area that you want to create as a table. Note that the table created will be an anchored object for the text frame. You can create a table from scratch within a text frame or convert an existing data into a table.
