InDesign Table question

i have been working in InDesign CS3 for several years, upgraded to CS6 today. Am attempting to edit a table in my document. Am not being allowed to even select this table. What can i do?
Thanks
rlholdren

it was! thanks! i did not create the original document, didn't know it was locked! thanks so much!

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Just check the checkbox "Import CALS tables as Indesign tables" in the XML import options dialogbox. Then it should go automatically.
The problem with this approach is that the entire table structure is collapsed to a single table element in the struture. If one want to do some xml-prosessing at row or cell level one need to to this outside indesign or not import CALS as Indesign tables. The big question is if there is some easy way to convert a CALS table to an Indesign table inside Indesign after one have imported the data and prosessed the row and cell elements...
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InDesign workflow question for longer document (book)

I'm new to Indesign and have read through the help topics and searched around but I can't seem to find an exact answer... I may be phrasing my question wrong.
I have a complete book in basic text (txt). What is the desired (or best in your experience) way to start work. In my mind I want to import the text as a whole, populate all pages, then I want to come back and format chapters and add images.
Everything I try doesn't support my idea (I am new to this software and I may just be approaching this incorrectly.) I also come from a different background and a different tool set so any advise would help.

To elaborate on Simon's answer, this is my workflow for straight-on books:
- Make a basic set of Master pages. You will need at least a single set with page numbering and, optionally, headings.
- Load all text. You will get lots and lots of pages, because it's still unformatted, but that's okay.
- I usually cut off front matter and put each item on a page of its own, so tiddling with it won't cause reflow of the entire document. You will need at least a title page and a reverse; "proper" books have a minor title page, a (c) page, a proper title page, and a blank. (Grab any one from your bookshelf that you like and copy its layout for these.) My first "true" flowing page is the first page of chapter 1. Remember to insert 2 pages (or perhaps more -- an even number) for a table of contents.
- Go through the main text from first to last page, applying basic formatting, paragraphs, subtitles, etc. -- the plain text works. Make and use paragraph styles for each unique format -- do not (or at least as possible!) apply local formatting. Use character styles for italics and bold in plain text.
- Go through the main text again, applying formatting to each new chapter. Insert page breaks (Odd Page Breaks for right-hand starting chapters) where appropriate. If you use Odd Page Breaks, insert them before
i every
new chapter (or use the "Break On Odd Page" Keep Option) -- i.e., not just when you seem to need one. It will change if you reformat or add picchers.
- Go through your text
i again,
this time adding all pictures, tables, etc. You can do the previous steps in any order you like, but this one must be done from front to back. If you have right hand chapters and the one before it has no text, make that one completely blank (i.e., remove header & page numbering).
- Tidy up the front matter and generate the contents.
- Remove the extra blanks at the end. These were the overspill from the plain text import.
- Sit back 'cause you're done!
As you see, your own ideas weren't bad at all.

InDesign 2 questions

I had heard at a seminar there were some downloads for InDesign 2 which would make our life easier at the newspaper where I work. Where could I find them on the Adobe Web site?
Also, are there compatibility issues between InDesign 2 and 3? I was thinking of downloading a version of 3 to see what new things have come out, but if there are compatibility issues I don't want to be designing pages and stuff with it.
Thanks!
Larry See
Relatively new user

Peter,
given the current economic situation of most newspapers, it is reasonable to not replace 100s of working computers mainly used as typewriters, upgrade all software and push the staff thru retraining every other year, just to follow the latest fashion in software advances. Heavy metal people are used to think in 10 year or longer investment cycles.
Larry,
as Peter said it would help to know whether you really mean InDesign 2 (blue butterfly on blue background) or InDesign CS2 (pink butterfly on white background). The startup screen will also give you the numbers.
Next, please tell us your OS (Mac or Windows), and whether you're working with an editorial system and eventually which. Indicators are login windows, extra menus that are not in the regular manual and feel more like "business", newspaper specific rather than "creative".
There should also be some person at the help desk / user support or even management that knows these nifty details. Before you get into downloads and such, you should anyway talk to these people whether it is ok at all to install additional software.
Independent from the version, there are two kinds of additional software:
Plugins are modules created by programmers, the same way as internal InDesign functionality. Assuming you really have InDesign 2, back then there have been only few plugin developers with few products and even if you find them these old versions are most likely out of support. For example I had only two plugins for ID2 for image related tasks, and the earliest version that I have built in the past two years was InDesign 3 (CS). Another disadvantage of plugins is that they usually have a price tag - no free downloads off the Adobe site.
Scripts are written in simplified programming languages, often the authors are regular/advanced users. They also may come as source code so you could adjust them to your use. Note that InDesign 2 only supported AppleScript (Mac) or VisualBasic (Windows) while a large share of scripting is nowadays done in JavaScript which was introduced with InDesign 3.
You could definitely download example scripts in these languages from newer versions, strip out all the added functionality not supported by your version, adjust some more required changes and eventually end up with something useful. This of course depends on whether you can spend the effort (time) and go thru the learning curve to become a scripter. There is a dedicated forum for that next door. As you say you're relatively new, it helps to first know the program from the user side. Note there are books even covering such old versions - see eBay or Amazon.
Back to the initial questions. If you have an editorial system there might be a user group around with similarily old installations, where other people already have built a collection of scripts. Try to get in touch with them.
Regarding compatibility from newer to older versions, you're mostly out of luck here because documents prepared in newer versions at best require conversion before you can use them with your old system, dropping all newer features and likely causing reflow and other trouble in the existing workflow. If you have isolated, special tasks (tables? fancier graphics effects?) you could of course produce a PDF and place that like an image.
Best luck,
Dirk

In InCopy, how can I paste from one InDesign table to another without also copying formatting?

I'm attempting to paste information from one indesign document to another, but the styles are different. Pasting without formatting not working in a table. When I paste over, it retains the container style from the original table.
I have "Text Only" selected from my Clipboard Handling preferences, so I'm not sure what else to do. I know I can hit escape to switch to the text selection instead of a container, but this only selects the text from one cell. I'd like to copy over the entire table, instead of copying cell by cell.
How can I paste a table into another, without copying the formatting?

Copy/Paste whole cells will always retain formatting.
What you have to do is: Copy/Paste Without Formatting the text contents of the individual cell.
You have to do that individually for each cell, if you want to copy over text of a whole table.
A better approach would be to:
1. Copy the whole table to Excel (or a different spread sheet application)
2. Copy again from that
3. Select one single cell and paste
In that case "Text Only" should be selected from the Clipboard Handling Preferences.
Uwe

InDesign Table question

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