Cool tricks with InDesign Tables

March 19, 2009

With CatBase you can create some very cool InDesign tables! Here's an example from a stationery catalogue that was created with CatBase:

How does it do that?
You can create Table Styles to specify the basic characteristics of a table: whether it has a header row, borders, row and column fills, etc. But the Table Styles options are limited to what you can do with InDesign tables. However, with CatBase you can also choose the styling for each column:

• choose a different background colour for each column
• set a different style for each column
• set a specific width or let CatBase calculate the width based on the contents of a column
• specify a static column header or use a field from the database

More examples of tables created by CatBase:

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