How do I prevent border formatting from disappearing whenever I insert a table?

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Hopefully the image above tells you all you need to know, but this is the inside of a textbox. I swapped out the genuine text with placeholder text so as not to distract you, but otherwise this is a very real project I'm actually working on.

So the text above appears inside a border. The text below appears inside a border. But what I actually want... I generated my desired output using photoshop, but I don't know how to replicate it into anything sensible in inDesign.

(I'll be changing the colour of the cells later anyway, so it doesn't matter if the solution preserves the transparency inside the cells or not.)

So, how do I do this?

Jon Chambers · Accepted Answer

The easiest way - to achieve graphics part - would be to do each block of text/table as separate table - or anchored/inline TextFrame ... BUT if you'll have a lot of text before / after the table - it'll be complicated to flow the text...

How long are your before / after texts ?

I think I understood you. Or if I didn't, my misunderstanding of you worked perfectly.

Using a table just didn't work as hoped, but using four textboxes in a group, c/p directly into the main textbox worked exactly as I intended. Here's a screenshot of the final result.

I'm still slightly disappointed that I couldn't get this feature to work when inserting a table, but given that I wanted a 4 cell table with all cells of exactly equal size, this restriction hasn't hurt my workflow for this project. Though having this behaviour work with inserted tables is something I still don't know how to do. Should I put in a feature request for it?

Scott Falkner · Answer

It's hard to know what is going on without a detailed screen shot. Please provide one with frame edges and hidden characters showing. The box around the text above and below your table (which I assume you want gone) could be strokes on frames, paragraph borders, or tables.

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