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Is it possible for the extra space in the cell height to disappear and auto-move up the cell bellow? So January is say one line of white text. The Feb. moves up and since it only has two lines of text- March & April shift up.
Same thing with May, August, and October- lots of unnecessary white space due to the overall row height.
I can adjust the row height- but I really want to shift the individual cell heights. It would be fine to do it manually since it is only a few cells... but even better if there is a way to have it autoflow, removing all the extra white space. I realize that will make for an uneven distribution, I might be fine with that.
Has anyone done this before and know if it is possible?
Hi, in InDesign, the rows do not break, which means the cells of the same row maintain the same height.
In you cace, I would 'fake it'.
I would be tempetd to try this:
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Hi, in InDesign, the rows do not break, which means the cells of the same row maintain the same height.
In you cace, I would 'fake it'.
I would be tempetd to try this:
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Thank you. That is a good thought. My next step was to remove the table... but since that was handed to us as part of the template, I was trying to work within their given materials... but I couldn't see how to do it without writing a script, maybe.
I appreciate your recommendation and I think for time's sake I will jump back into no table. 🙂
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Dropping it into a 3 column format. Fast to copy all text and then do a Paragraph style for the headers and brillant for doing the lines in the master page- I hadn't thought of that. not done- but a quick solution for the rough draft. Thanks Eric.
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So it's no longer a 3x column table 😉
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That is 100% correct, Robert!
But... it is a rough draft on a tight deadline and subject to a lot of changes, so I am going with it works for today!
I am guessing a script could be written to eliminate white space in a table while shifting everything up... but that one is beyond my ability today.
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If you shift cells in columns vertically - it's no longer a "table" - it's just "boxed" representation of some information - which could be even harder to achieve than text flowing in multiple columns.
But of course - everything depends on the end goal 😉
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Feel free to tell me how to achieve what I was going for in a table Robert. I'm always happy to learn for the next time, and it sounds like you know how to do it. Maybe share?
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If you need a header and undivided frame around the body - then you have two options:
1a) one long table with alternate CellStyles - header + body,
1b) multiple two-row tables - either with alternate CellStyles or tables with a header,
2) multiple anchored groups of TextFrames - header + body.
If text under the header can span between columns - then you've already figured it out 😉