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May 13, 2019
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Indesign table, cells, make a fill without affecting the stroke

  • May 13, 2019
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Hi,

I am working with cell styles, I cant find if there is a way to make a fill in a cell without affecting the stroke or vice verca.?

I cant see that the overprint checkbox works/does anything either.

This should be possible like a "bold character style" does not affect the character color ( I think my college made a such)

This would save a lot of time, and I dont have to make a fourth cell style for the cell that's in the meeting-point of the row and column that are special in my case.

Thanks/ Joakim

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    Barb Binder
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    Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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    May 13, 2019

    Hi joakimm62114553:

    You can make a cell style that will impact either the fill, the stroke, or both. Because they share the same Tab in the Cells Styles dialog box, you need to understand the stroke proxy, which confuses a surprisingly wide range of people.

    Strokes use the proxy at the top of the dialog box (outlined in orange). To eliminate a change to strokes when you change the Fill, click on each of the blue lines to turn them gray. Tip: click corners to change two at once. Gray lines mean to ignore that part of the stroke. Blue lines are ready for an update.

    Now you can change just the fill without impacting the stroke.

    ~Barb

    ~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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      joakimm62114553Author
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      May 13, 2019

      Hi,

      By stroke proxy, you dont mean the "based on" option right? in the "general" tab?

      Because thats the only thing that gets me half way there.

      I did as you said, by only doing what you said the fill-style takes over the stroke- style and makes the strokes black, if nothing else is chosen.

      Do I need to do something else? like based on, or overprint checkbox?

      I have the latest indesign.

      Thanks anyway.

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      joakimm62114553Author
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      May 13, 2019

      Turns out you can do this "fill only" on top , as you described (if I understood correctly) , in "cell options", manually, but thats a bad way, and it is no style, just modifies the other style.

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
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      May 13, 2019

      Hi Joakim,

      best show some screenshots that are illustrating the issue.

      Also look into this 3rd-party solution Smart Styles by Woodwing:

      Smart Styles - Adobe InDesign plugin | WoodWing Software

      You could do special InDesign libraries with that where e.g. a style for the whole table is an asset.

      Smart Styles is smart enough to detect rules in formatting so that the design rules for a table can be applied to other tables as well.

      Regards,
      Uwe

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