InDesign Breaking Table CELLS..

can you set a table CELL that is really long and deep and must break across pages to BREAK in the middle so it can continue on the next page? it always wants to keep all the cells together...

Table cells do not break in ID.

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Embedded iFrame breaking table cell

At
http://www.marquiseknox.com/schedule.htm,
you'll see the right margin breaks near the top of the page, as the
schedule appears. So I'd like to fix this. All help is
welcome!

this is domed to fail;
the table width is a % of the page width while the Iframe is
an exact
dimension:
<table width="90%" border="0" align="center"
cellpadding="2"
cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><iframe height="650"
width="700"
If a visitor resizes the browser window the table breaks.
give the table an
exact dimension big enough to enclose the Iframe...remember
to account for
any cell spacing or padding you specify in your css or table
parameters.
Jeff
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> At
http://www.marquiseknox.com/schedule.htm,
you'll see the right margin
> breaks near the top of the page, as the schedule
appears. So I'd like to
> fix this. All help is welcome!

InDesign CS6 Font doesn't work in table cells

Hi all!
I'm working in InDesign CS6 on Mac OS 10.6 Leopard. I have character and paragraph styles defined using a certain font, and they work just fine except when using them in table cells. I have the character style nested in the paragraph style, which is then used in the cell style. But it doesn't work. It inherits everything correctly except for the font. If I select the text, the font menu tells me it is the correct font, but it displays in a different font. I've tried exporting to IDML and resaving, but that didn't work. I'm stumped

Hi Jeffrey-
Indeed it should, and I see why using a formatted table would cause conflicts, but I am importing it as an unformatted table already. Built all styles in InDesign first, then imported as unformatted table. A few times it did work as expected, but most of the time it steadfastly refused to apply the correct font.
But in any case, that wasn't my only issue with the tables. My understanding of importing Excel spreadsheets is that applied table and cell styles will be maintained when the linked file is updated, but local formatting/overrides will be wiped out, which is why I was trying to get the styles working in the first place. However, after testing, I found that even when I didn't use local formatting/overrides, updating the linked file still broke my InDesign layout.
In my test, the only thing I did to the imported (unformatted) table was to apply the table/cell styles and adjust column width (which is unavoidable as far as I know - didn't see anywhere I could set column width as part of a style). But even then an update to the linked file removed all the styles and column widths I had set (and was also highly annoying as it gave me a separate error message about the formatting loss for each and every instance of the spreadsheet).
Could be a fluke, or could be I'm missing something, but for whatever reason, I just couldn't get it to work

How can I copy and paste table cells from Pages into InDesign with minimum reformating?

How can I copy and paste table cells from Pages into InDesign with minimum reformating?

Do you mean you want to retain the formatting from Pages, or retain formatting already applied in ID?

Make Table Cells Transparents in InDesign CC 2014?? HELP!

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I used to be able to make the fill on my table cells different transparencies in indesign. I could make it so the background would lightly show through, and the text would still be legible. I also was able to make the table border be transparent so the background would totally shine through. I can't do this anymore with the new 2014 release.
Does anyone know how to fix this??? Thanks!!!

I think it works like this here:

IPhone UISwitch not appearing correctly in table cells

I have a table cell with a UISwitch attached to it.
When you click the switch it works (but not without a bit of code to make it switch when the word 'on' and 'off' are actually clicked) but when the table cell itself is clicked the switch distorts like shown here:
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6510/picture1df.png
what is the correct way to make a table cell with a UISwitch?

The code you posted looks like it should work on 3.0 just fine.
I've tried a custom table cell and it did the same thing
Assuming your custom subclass was built and used correctly, the above tells me something is definitely wrong in the cell's environment.
Perhaps it's something to do with the selecting of the row method?
Well that's certainly the first place to look. The delegate method you posted looks kinky. I would comment out that method, then go back to the solutions that didn't work in the past and see if your tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: hasn't been the problem all along.
In any case I would get rid of the deselect message in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:. What are you trying to accomplish there? If you simply want to disable all selections, you can just code tableView.allowsSelection=NO during setup. If you want to know the user's selection but don't want the cell to actually become selected, try something like this in the delegate:
- (NSIndexPath *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
return nil;
If you want the cell to actually become selected, but don't want its appearance to change, try cell.selectionStyle=UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:.
If tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: turns out not to have been the problem, we'll need to look at the rest of your table view code. I've found the kind of problem you described is easily isolated once you have faith in some assumptions. In this case you just need to believe that both the subclass solution and the code in UICatalog will allow a UISwitch to display and operate perfectly. Once you believe that, you'll pay more attention to the rest of you code.
One excellent way to gain faith in the basic structure is to start a fresh testbed and, for example, use code similar to UICatalog to bring up a table view with a UISwitch in one or more cells. Once you see how easy it is to make that work, you can start backing in some of your more creative init, delegate and/or data source methods until you break the testbed.
- Ray

Images in InDesign CS6 tables

In InDesign CS6 is there a way to define tables cells to images instead of text (like you can in QXP). My aim is to import images into cell, but I want them to fill the full cell size.

Sorry - InDesign doesn't offer that function - you'd have to set that up manually.
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Get the measurement for your cell
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Why can I not tab out of table cell after running command from keyboard

In my Jtable I have context menu with actions that can be performed on the selected cells either using mouse, or the action can be initiated directly from the keyboard using the defined acceleratorkey.
After the action has completed you can tab out of the selected cells using the Tab key or cursor keys if the action was initiated with the mouse, but not if initiated with the keyboard but Im at a loss as to what causes the difference.
thanks Paul

I found this one someWhere, maybe check your code if Cell returns true = isCellEditable(row, column)
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TableActions extends JFrame {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
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        JTable table = new JTable(15, 5) {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
            @Override
            public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
                return column % 2 == 0;
//              return false;
        table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
        getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
        InputMap im = table.getInputMap(JTable.WHEN_ANCESTOR_OF_FOCUSED_COMPONENT);
        // Have the enter key work the same as the tab key
        KeyStroke tab = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_TAB, 0);
        KeyStroke enter = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER, 0);
        im.put(enter, im.get(tab));
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        KeyStroke right = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT, 0);
        im.put(right, "none");
        // Override the default tab behaviour
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        final Action oldTabAction = table.getActionMap().get(im.get(tab));
        Action tabAction = new AbstractAction() {
            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                oldTabAction.actionPerformed(e);
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                int rowCount = table.getRowCount();
                int columnCount = table.getColumnCount();
                int row = table.getSelectedRow();
                int column = table.getSelectedColumn();
                while (!table.isCellEditable(row, column)) {
                    column += 1;
                    if (column == columnCount) {
                        column = 0;
                        row += 1;
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                        row = 0;
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                            && column == table.getSelectedColumn()) {
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Table cell spanning pages

Hi all,
I'm having a rather major problem with Pages. I've managed to convince my sister-in-law to buy an iBook and star using Pages for her school work, however we've encountered a particularily difficult problem:
Pages (and AppleWorks) does not allow her to use table cells that span more than one page! Not only is this a problem because she has whole load of old MSWord documents that she needs to read, but she definitely needs to continue working like this. First because it's the only sensible thing to do, second because her teachers require her to.
Here's the problem: She creates a table, 2x8 cells (for example). In the rightmost column she generally writes quite a lot of text, often so much that it does not fit inside a cell that is limited vertically to the size of the page. In MSWord, this cell automatically wraps to the next page, however in Pages, the cell simply stops growing and the text appears to continue "behind" the next page.
We've tried to devise other layouts for her work, but tables seem to be the only feasible alternative. Using columns would not help her at all, text boxes would be too cumbersome, manually splitting the cells would make the document extremely difficult to edit (all her documents are, for a very long time, a work in progress, so editing happens all the time).
Can anyone help us out here? I'm || this close to going out to buy her a copy of MS Office, as no other word processor I've tried (Pages, AppleWorks, NeoOffice/J, OpenOffice) manages to deal with this properly. This would be a major admission of defeat.
Anyone?
Thanks,
/Eirik

Welcome to Apple Discussions Elrik
I have a Pages document with a single table that spans 11 pages. Unfortunately, it took a bit of fiddling with it & I can't remember how I did it. This is a table I had converted from AppleWorks, which also doesn't easily allow tables to span page breaks. I think I got it to do it by inserting new rows in the middle of the existing table. Then I would select & drag the contents from an unconnected table on another page into these new rows.

Fill table cells with color % depending on cell content

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I'm working on a document with a lot of tables filled with percentages. The tables are originally on a Word document and the table cells are tinted according to their content: a value of 20% on the cell corresponds to a tint of 20%. This is done automatically on the Word document through a conditional formatting option that applies a graded color scale. Is there any way to do this in InDesign? I tried placing the tables and tried all options, but the color is not imported. Perhaps a script or a GREP style?
Thank you.

Conditional formatting in Word is done via formula, but in Excel it is handled more "on the surface" and Excel's conditional formatting carries into InDesign nicely via Place or Paste. It could be worth considering moving those tables into Excel.
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How to control the force return in table cell data?

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Hi Russ,
yes, but you have to agree that forcing a return in the SOURCE content is really not a wise thing to do - It would be better to break the content into multiple paragraphs or used an XSLT to determine the column width and insert your own breaks in a version of the XML for rendering in Frame. If, at a later date, your templates in Frame change to allow wider columns in your table, then you'd have to go back into the source code and change every occurrence of the c/r in the data - Yeuch! Better to transform the data once, before importing into Frame and then if the col-width changes it is a simple task to change the width in the XSLT - personally, I would make sure the EDD and DTD allows multi-lines in the table cell and then break-up the data to fit the table cell size in an XSLT before importing. Then you don't taint your source code...and it is quite easy to do this is an XSLT...

How to make 2 lines in a webdynpro table cell?

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Is it possiable to create a WebDynpro Table Call that can contains 2 lines in 1 cell ?

Hi Ami,
There are a limited number of UI elements that you may use for a Table Cell Editor, however, with a TextView, you can display text that includes a line break.
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Break table row across multiple frames?

Hi
I would know wether is possible to split a single table row across serverla frames/pages.
I´m using InDesign CS5 and when I try to import a big table from word documments (by using de app or by scripting), if a row is bigger than the textFrame, a blank page is generated with the overflow simbol.
The only way to see that table is by enlarging the textFrame.
I´ve been reading about this problem, and some news in 2004 reported it was a problem wich will be solved in next releases.
Is there any way to work arround?
One option is to split de row in several small rows, but I think the proper solution would be to let the row jump to the next TextFrame (just like word does)
Thanks in advance

I can show you a real example.
http://www.xunta.es/dog/Publicados/2011/20110615/AnuncioC3F1-140611-3147_gl.pdf
In page 14984 the row with the text "Coruña" span across two pages. Well, in this example, what we did was to convert the table in images. Then the images were put inside each page in InDesign.
This cell is too big to fit in a frameText and it was shown as empty.
Other option would be to split the row before the imporation. In this way, InDesign would, automatically jump to the next page.
The question was if there was any configuration option to implement all this solutions (change the table or convert it to text) without change the table structure.
Any way, thansk again.

Problem with table cells

Hi,
actually i wanted to know that is there any way
so that i can show contents of a table cell in two pages, i.e, half the cell is in one page and other half of the cell on another page
as my cell content is very large it do not fit in one page.
I'm using InDesign CS3
Thanks

Hi,
As I've already written in another post, that depends on, but I'm not sure that using a table structure is always the best way!

Getting rid of blank table cells

I am currently making an address book and have had to occasionally remove names from the listings. What this means is that there are now blank cells all through out my address book. How can I remove those cells?

I am surprised that Word would be much smarter at doing this; InDesign has had the tables feature for qutie a while now I would have thought they would have worked this out by now.
<cough>
Corrupt tables are pretty much the primary cause of corrupt Word documents. I've never seen a table cause a corrupt InDesign document. Word allows a lot of table-mangling, but I'd say that giving table-manglers what they want is the exact opposite of "smart." Tables in Word are pure hell. InDesign's table implementation (purchased from a third party plugin developer, if I recall correctly), while not as... er... flexible as that of Word, is far more stable. I guess it depends on what you think is smart.
Anyhow, back to what you want:
The reason I designed it using tables like this is because this is the way that my client said they wanted it to be.
Well, I hope you bill hourly. There is a way to automate this, I think, using InDesign's Data Merge feature. If you aren't billing hourly, then it may be worth setting up - moving all of the content into an application like Excel, a spreadsheet app where it's really easy to do address-book-entry-management the way you want, and does not induce corruption when you have to spot-delete individual cells, unlike some other apps I can think of. You can then save a file out of Excel, and InDesign can automagically fill up your tables with content from your Excel file, with no gaps. When your client wants changes, then you just tweak your Excel file a bit, export, and then run the Data Merge to get your gap-free table back.
However, that'd be a lot of work, and I can't even guarantee that it would work, never having tried it. But it's where I'd go in your shoes if my dataset wasn't this small:
my list of names is relatively short so cutting and pasting shouldn't take too much time.
Lastly, I think that your client might not care about whether or not they're in table cells; they just want it to look that way, right? If so, there are many, many ways to set up your doc that don't involve tables, that still yield the desired appearance. If you want to go in that direction, I can toss out a few ideas - I think that Rik already has, although his suggestion is a little bit low on detail.

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