Insert a circle in certain table cells

[mihkelk92850352]

I am creating a calendar in InDesign and want to style the holidays with a filled circle behind the date. How can i Do that through cell styles? One possibility would be to make the cell border corners round (if the round corners are big enough, they make a full circle. But this round corner option only works for the whole table, not cells (as far as I know). Any other ideas?

[@mj]

Hi,

You'd be able to get the circle into the cell as an in-line graphic. Which can be copy/pasted where needed.

As a cell style, I'm doubtful.

HTH

[Migintosh]

Have you considered using a font that has a circle around the number itself? Try a search for circled numbers font.

[Eric Dumas]

Hi,

font with circle would be my first choice. Otherwise you could try to create an excel file, with an image's url as a reference for the holidays and use the data merge function to create your calendar, very complicated but easier updates from year on year. 31 days for every month... headache actually.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

If you want this, simply apply a cell style and type your text! … The "blue circle" will immediately and automatically appear, included in the para style! 

Think simple! …

(^/)

[mihkelk92850352]

How do I achieve this cell style? I think I have looked at all possible options in cell style options, couldn't find a way to do this?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

1/ Create a personalized stroke [take my settings]:

2/ create a new para style you call "Circle" with a specific para rule:

The cell width is "40 mm". The left/right insets are "2 mm". So, the cell text column is … 36 mm [40 - 2 - 2].

So the center of the "text column" is … 18 mm.

The "dot" size is "5 mm".

So: 18 - 5 = 13 mm!

If you define the para rule left/right insets to 13 mm, you see nothing but if 12.99 mm, it becomes cool!

To finish, associate this new para style to a new "Circle" cell style!

That's all folks!

Think simple … and keep cool! 

(^/)

[vinny38]

Not bad...

but...

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Apparemment, je suis le seul curieux ! 

Vinny, tu nous donnes la suite !? …

le plus interessant, ce n'est pas le résultat mais la torture mentale qu'il génère !

(^/)

[Barb Binder]

You are accusing Vinny of "la torture mentale"? He's learned from the master.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Aha! … I could do it with a simple regex but not auto!

… So, I'm curious and interested! …    I wanna learn something today! 

(^/)

[Barb Binder]

I wanna learn something today!

As do I.

[vinny38 · Accepted solution]

Haha... La torture mentale...

So, basically i use the very same technic than you. The only difference is that I didn't "stick" the 2 extremities of the rule in the middle. I used large negative left and right indents to throw them way out of the column. The visible circle is the mid-one...

Of course don't forget to set cell style with Clipping contents to cell.

🙂

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

S'agissant d'un calendrier avec une structure de tableau aux largeurs de colonnes apparemment identiques et fixes, l'idée initiale pouvait se suffire à elle-même, mais ta conclusion reposant sur le fameux "écretage" dont nous avions déjà soulevé le subtil intérêt dans "Lost in the Universe! …"

[post@ 15-19] est simplement extrêmement plus pertinente et bien vue, digne d'un Jedi !

Barb, thanks to make Vinny's answer as correct and mine as helpful! 

[ … Je n'ai rien appris aujourd'hui, juste un rappel ! … mais cela était intéressant à suivre ! ]

(^/)

*  Somewhere … Lost In The Universe!  [Left/Right Strokes]

[vinny38]

Venant de ta part, un compliment fait évidemment plaisir. Mais ce plaisir n'est rien comparé à celui de t'avoir torturé mentalement quelques minutes...

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

… Pour ce qui est de la "torture mentale", je ne pensais pas à moi [mon seuil de tolérance est anormalement élevé grâce à La Force !], mais à tous ceux qui vont essayer de répliquer l'approche ! …

Je leur conseille vivement l'usage d'un parachute avant de sauter par la fenêtre, même du rez-de-chaussée !

… Et je te remercie : nous partageons ce fardeau à 2 !

MTFBWY!

(^/)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

Screenshot please!

(^/)

[mihkelk92850352]

Cells 23 and 24 for example have black backgrounds at the moment, but I would like to have the background be a black circle. Font with circle would be an option, but I would like to be able to edit the size of the circle...

[Barb Binder]

Hi mihkelk92850352, it looks like Obi-wan Kenobi, has a good solution for you. We can mark it as correct once you confirm.

If you get stuck on the French-language screen shots, just come back and let us know. The starting point is Window > Stroke > Stroke Panel menu > Stroke Styles and then click on New. From there, it's fairly easy to follow along. If you don't work in mm, just type in Obi's numbers followed by mm, they will convert to whatever unit of measure you are using once you press the Tab key. From there, it's easy to increase/decrease the values to get exactly what you want.

~Barb