how to generate a text table in illustrator?

[a_nisse]

Hey!

I'm trying to generate a proper table in lllustrator..

I did it by creating a rectangle and then object --> path --> split into grid.

I added text boxes using the area text tool and now.. I don't know how to vertically center the area tool text box within the single table grids according to the height of the table grids. The horizontal aligment works perfectly fine. Would be so great if someone could hep me:=)!!!

Thanks in advance

[_scott__]

Illustrator has no vertical centering for text areas. You'll have to use the Align Panel or Control Panel and vertically align the text to the table grid.

[Mike_Gondek]

Since Illustrator does not have vertical centering of text, you can use the baseline shift to find a value that centers your text.

[Julian Beach]

I use Baseline shift as well. If it is a document with lots of text to centre in boxes, I set up paragraph styles with the right baseline shift for the number of lines of text in the box (Title_1li, Title_3li, etc). I find the text often needs to be set slightly below the centreline anyway, and baseline shift gives plenty of flexibility.