unable to apply 'Fill' option in 'Table Styles'

No. I used the menu command from the Table Styles panel.

The whole table was selected at that moment.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

did some additional tests with the problem table. Some results:

[1] Did a duplicate of the applied table style.

[2] Applied that duplicated style to the table.

[3] Removed the applied table style and substituted it with the [No Table Style] style.

Removed all overrides of the table style.

[4] Set all cell styles to cell style [None]

Removed all overrides of the cell style.

[5] Applied the original table style again.

Alternate fills are showing up.

Applied the right cell styles on the selected header row.

Applied the right cell styles to the selected body rows.

Result:

FWIW: I tried to apply the right cell styles through the table style.

This did not work. The formatting of the cells did not change.

I had to apply the cell styles by selecting the cells.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

after writing this I will unmark my reply from above as Correct Answer.

Why? Because Gregor's script is not working on your sample table.

I try to find a different solution, but I think with this specific table it cannot be done with all the means available in the user interface of InDesign. Perhaps another script will solve the issue, but I cannot promise anything.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

if someone wants to solve this riddle you have to make the table available for inspecting.

Not the whole document, just one page with the table.

Best use Dropbox or a similar service and post the download link for the document here.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Regarding your other problem, the one with your table:

Please show the table before you are running the script by Gregor Fellenz.

Also show the settings you do in the script's UI.

Plus: Show the table after you ran the script.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

if you see "ss" in text variable instances, Current Page markers, footnote number instances you updated to InDesign 15.1.0.25 and you are using one of the two paragraph composers:

Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer
Adobe World-Ready Composer

This is a known bug.

Currently the only known workaround is to use one of the following paragraph composers:

Adobe Single-line Composer
Adobe Paragraph Composer

Adobe Japanese Single-line Composer
Adobe Japanese Paragraph Compose

If you do text composition with Hebrew or Arabic then this is no option at all.

In that case revert back to InDesign 15.0.3 until the issue is fixed.

Vote for fixing the bug here or vote that you get a notification when a fix is out:

ID 2020 15.1 - All text variables (including page numbers) replaced by "ss" text

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180/suggestions/40675342

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

then I guess that some style overrides are in place.

After you removed the overrides all should work as expected with alternate rows.

If you are on InDesign 2020 version 15.0.3 you could use a script in the new Community section of your Scripts panel to get rid of the overrides in your table: ClearStyleOverrides.jsx by Gregor Fellenz.

When not on 15.0.3 the script ClearStyleOverrides.jsx is available at the link below with a detailed description how to use it:

https://github.com/grefel/clearOverrides

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Ashim,

from your screenshot I can see no difference in fill color for First and Next Rows.

So every row will get that C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0 fill color.

From my German InDesign where I defined:

Alternate

First: 1 Rows to Yellow

Next: 1 Rows to None:

Note:

Skip First: 1 Rows

Skip Last: 4 Rows

as well.

Hope your table has enough body rows so that all the settings can go into effect.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )