Using cell style, how to realize that the two side lines of the header are 0, but the middle column line is 0.15mm.
The table body can be controlled by the leftmost column and the rightmost column, but the table header does not seem to have this function
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Hi 喜狼_edny,
the art of formatting tables with the table options and cell styles is not to define values for cell properties where the table style already defines them and they fit with your design. What you want to do is perfectly possible.
It requires:
1 table style and 3 cell styles
One cell style for the header row
One cell style for all body rows*
One cell style for the footer row
* Could be even optional, but I assume that you'd like to apply different paragraph styles in header, body a
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Hi 喜狼_edny,
the art of formatting tables with the table options and cell styles is not to define values for cell properties where the table style already defines them and they fit with your design. What you want to do is perfectly possible.
It requires:
1 table style and 3 cell styles
One cell style for the header row
One cell style for all body rows*
One cell style for the footer row
* Could be even optional, but I assume that you'd like to apply different paragraph styles in header, body and footer cells.
The table style dictates which cell styles are used for the header row, the body rows and the footer row.
The table style defines that there is no stroke around the table.
Tip: If the property of a cell is defined with the table style do not define it with a cell style if the value is the same.
Some screenshots from my German InDesign 2021 on Windows 10:
Download this sample document from my Dropbox account and inspect the table style and the cell styles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2zpaphy651n4y60/CustomTableStyle-3-CellStyles-2021.indd?dl=1
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
You may now criticize that you need no footer row, but a footer row is required for the thick stroke at the bottom of your table. If you define a minimum height for the footer your design will work.
To define a minimum height:
Set the top and bottom insets of the footer to 0.
Set the applied paragraph style's point size for the footer to 0.1 Pt
That gives you this design where the footer cells come with a minimum height of 1.058 mm.
You still can try to decrease that height, but for this you need a script.
Select all cells in the footer row and run the ExtendScript (JavaScript) code below:
app.selection[0].cells.everyItem().height = "0.1 mm";
This will still reduce the height of the selected cells, but not as much as you like.
The minimum heigth value is set to 0.1 mm as the UI is showing, but the real height of the footer is still 0.55 mm. A bareer you cannot break in InDesign:
Download this variant of my document from my Dropbox account:
So to answer your initial question:
With one exception, the stroke at the bottom of the table, you can do the design by applying a table style to a table.
I tried that workaround with a footer row, but this also requires manual intervention.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
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