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InDesign How-To: Designing Distinctive Tables

Tables don't have to be a few stripes of color punctuated by hairline rules. Here's how to make graphically interesting tables in InDesign 2.0.
Written on July 25, 2002
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The ability to create tables has been a highy touted feature of both InDesign 2.0 and QuarkXpress 5.0. But tables themselves are rather hum-drum: Make some rows and columns, maybe throw in a tint, import the data, and you're done, right? Wrong. Learn how to add graphic panache to tables in InDesign 2.0 in this tutorial from Adobe Systems.

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