Table cell strokes

[Michael J B]

I am working on a table with quite a few different requirements for fills, text justification, strokes, etc. To manage these requirements I am setting up cell styles. Everything is working well except for the strokes. I have read Adobe's online help articles and the whole business of applying strokes strikes me as counterintuitive, or some kind of homage to Dante...or the problem is operator error on my part.

Please refer to Table Cell Strokes 01, attached, showing a cell with an image of hands and a plant. I have not been able to get what I need in terms of strokes which is:

• solid stroke at top and right;

• no stroke at left;

• dashed stroke at bottom.

When I select the cell and open the cell style dialogue box at Strokes and Fills, what I see at this point in my "exploration" is captured in Table Cell Strokes 02.

How do I get the arrangemet of strokes that I need?

Thanks in advance!

When I select the

[Diane Burns]

Your screen image doesn't seem to exactly match your description. But based on your description, here is how I'd set this up.

You have to select the proxy lines you want to control. For example, if you want top and right to be solid, de-select the other strokes and set the top and right:

Next, to make the left side show no stroke, select that proxy only and set line width to zero, which effectively turns off the stroke:

Finally, select the proxy for the bottom line and make the Type = Dashed.

The result shown in this simple example:

Hope this helps. Happy to look at sample of file, too.

[Michael J B]

Excellent!

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Keep in mind that ID's management of table outlines is — hierarchical? layered? An outline style applied to Cell B will usually override that applied previously in Cell A (and Cell C). In addition to mastering the somewhat fussy tool for applying outlines and saving them as part of cells, remember that one cell style or override can override an adjacent one, and not always in sensible or consistent form. It can take a few rounds to get the "stack" the way you want it.