Creating a table in Indesign is a tedious work.
In-order to create a table indesign you need to create text and table styles. And convert your tabbed text into table. Finally, you apply all styles manually. Is in’t tedious?
What if it’s done in a click?
I am Sanjiv, a passionate and lazy designer, who quickly get bored with repeated work. So, I decided to develop a script that will help me to create a table in just one click.
This script create all styles and swatches, converts the text to table and apply formatting using cell styles and merge the rows were needed. It’s works with both Mac and Windows. Cool Is in’t?
Here is the simple procedure to use it...
- Load the script into your script panel & assign a shortcut key if you wish.
- Copy and paste the text from word or excel to indesign.
- Select the “text frame” and run the script.
Congratulation you are successfully created your table.
Demonstration video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbi3JqN9C0Y&t=59s
To download the script, link is in the Youtube description.
I inspired from Deb-O-Matic script. A big thanks to David Blatner, Chuck Weger and Deb Haines "Deb-O-Matic script" developer. Thank you all with love and support.
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