InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Text Formatting

Text inside a table cell acts almost exactly like text inside any text frame, and you can format it to your heart's delight. If you need to format a bunch of cells in the same way, select them all and use the Character and Paragraph palettes (or apply a paragraph or character style). You can even delete all the text from all selected cells by pressing the Delete key. Note that you can format table cells even with no text in them. That way, the text in each cell gets formatted automatically as you type.

Tabs within Tables

Ordinarily you wouldn't type a tab character inside a table cell, but if you need oneto align decimal numbers within a cell, for exampleyou can add one by either using the Insert Special Character submenu (see Chapter 51) or by typing Option-Tab on the Macintosh. Alt-Tab switches applications in Windows, so set up your own keyboard shortcut. Then you can use the Tab palette to set up tab stops within the cell, just as though the cell were a text frame (see Chapter 49).

Overset Text in a Cell

By default, cells auto expand vertically when you add text or graphics. However, if you've set rows to have a fixed height, when you add text or graphics beyond that size, you may see a small red dot appear in the lower right corner of the cell (see Figure 76-1). This indicates overset text. You can either make the cell bigger or make the cell's contents smaller. We discuss how to handle overset graphics, inline graphics, and tables in the next chapter.

Text Rotation

Sometimes it's useful to rotate the text within a table cell, like for table headers. InDesign allows text to be rotated in multiples of 90 degrees (unlike XPress, which allows an arbitrary rotation). To rotate text, select the cell or cells you want to affect and click on one of the text rotation buttons in the Table palette. You can also use the Text panel of the Cell Options dialog box. Note that you can get text at any angle by pasting in rotated text as an inline graphic.