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InDesign How-to: Mind Your Table Manners
The best tables communicate their information efficiently and look good doing it. This article doesn't only explain where to find InDesign's table tools. It spends even more time on the design principles behind the most successful tables.
Written by Michael Murphy on November 7, 2007
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This article is excerpted from the August/September 2007 issue of InDesign Magazine, #19.
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Just as there are guidelines for polite behavior at dinner, there are rules to follow when designing tables that make them easier for your audience to comprehend. This article helps you understand what makes good tables effective and how to apply those principles to your own work. If you like what you see in the article, go to the last page of the PDF for a special discount on an InDesign Magazine subscription.
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I am growing to truly detest Adobe. Is there nothing like a simple user guide where I don't have to go through endless screens when all I need is a simple layout of how to perform a simple funtion.
After conscutive disasters that wiped out my software and endless, pointless conversation with polite peoples in India whose English appears on a par with my French-- that would be NOT up to par for techical support,I bought the upgrade. I got
that odiously hypocritical insert about having no user guide BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PROTECT THE PLANET'S RESOURCES.! How stupid do they think people are? I don't want ratings of an article about tables. I want to find out how to create one. I hate you. I'll have to buy a user guide published by someone else. I don't mind that so much as the waste of my time when I try to get some kind of instructions from Adobe.
I used to like them. Now I hate them. Maybe Mac will upgrade their layout programs.