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October 13, 2020
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  • October 13, 2020
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Can someone please explain to me what the client means by this...Your help is much appreciated, thanks

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pixxxelschubser
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 14, 2020

@indie5E1E 

at first you started in Illustrator forum two threads.

 

Then in the middle of this thread -->

@indie5E1E wrote: "Okay now this is from InDesign.."

 

Just for clarification:

  1. is this a Illustrator question?
  2. or is this now a InDesign question?

 

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 14, 2020

If it is an InDesign table, it sounds to me like they want the column widths the same and the cell padding insets the same amount in all columns. I guess.

Mike Witherell
indie5E1EAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 13, 2020

Please, guys, help me out...

Make all margins the same by adjusting the column width.

 



[ double posts merged by moderator ]

 

JonathanArias
Legend
October 14, 2020

Doing what they ask makes the table wider. 
you must take the width of one cell and make that the same width for all of them. Use the company site or industry as your cell. Highlight it, look at the width and copy and paste that number to all other cells. Now all of your cells are the same size with the same margin.

Bill Silbert
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2020

I think what the client is asking for is to make sure that the space between the widest word in each column and the vertical rules is equivalent to the space between the red rules that have been drawn. For example it looks like the space surrounding the words "Manufacturing" and "Transportation" (they seem to be about the same width) under the "Industry" column is pretty close already and at most would only require a slight adjustment to match the red line example. On the other hand the "Average Monthly Savings Per Device" column would need to be made narrower to match the space for "Savings Per" which seems to be the widest line of copy in the column.

The request seems a bit unrealistic to me since the widest copy in each column is not always the header copy. When the widest word actually appears as entry copy then the header, I think, will look odd compared to the headers that do contain the widest words.

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2020

They want the column width to be the width of the text plus those margins in each column.

indie5E1EAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 13, 2020

Thanks a lot for the reply Doug... So am I on the right path here? Or completely off course?

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 13, 2020

They don't want actual lines there, just that the extra horizontal space is the same in each column.