Comments on: Calculate Totals in InDesign Tables

By: Alischajane

Alischajane — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:11 +0000

Excuse the bombardment – one more question! We have change script to calculate 10% tax by changing the code to the below which divides the total by 11 to calculate the included 10% tax.

row 15: var sum = 1;
row 19: sum = ParseCleanFloat(cells[j].texts[0].contents) / 11;
row 42: return 1;

Now the tricky part, this final cell which as the calculation we would love for it to come up with the value then the text “inc gst”. Any idea how this can be done?

And still trying to figure out the subtraction. Has us stumped?

By: Alischajane

Alischajane — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:58:50 +0000

Figured out the multiply by 0.7 and 0.3. Now trying to work out how to subtract two cells from each other?

By: Alischajane

Alischajane — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:30:46 +0000

Hello, thankyou for sharing this script! It has some great functions and so excited by its use.

Any idea how I can change the script into three new script:

- Divide by 11 (calculate tax)
- Multiply by 0.3 (calculate deposit)
- Multiple by 0.7 (calculate remainder payment)

By: ramavarshny

ramavarshny — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:23:59 +0000

Great, thanks a lot Blatner. Now I am able to create tables in table mode easily and much faster than the old way. Spacing is accurate and table looks pretty neat too. Thanks a lot, may God bless you.

By: ramavarshny

ramavarshny — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:10:29 +0000

Thanks Blatner. I ll surely check them out.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:56:28 +0000

@ramavarshny: It sounds like you may need a tutorial on how to make and adjust tables in InDesign. After you place the content, convert it to a table, then apply styles to the text in each column or row and adjust the widths of each column/row. If you need the table to reach the width of the page, then you can stretch it out, or just make the text frame the width of the page before converting the text to a table. For more information, see Real World InDesign, or the lynda.com Essential Training videos, etc.

By: ramavarshny

ramavarshny — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:50:39 +0000

Please help me.
I need to create table by importing text from msword. Providing even space between every column is a difficult task for me. Now what i do is
1. create a text frame (of same size as the page)
2. Import text
3. Apply required styles
4. Use C+S+T and set tabs manually, to view the columns legibly
5. Place a text/rectangular frames of width equal to the longest word to be set in each column. If there are 10 columns, then there will be 10 frames sized as per longest text in each column.
6. Then select the frames, in Align (C+,) window, distribute in evenly.

This process consumes lot of time. I used table menu, but still even spacing between column texts (table width should be equal to page width) is difficult.
Is there any script to achieve this? Any easy methods to save time? Please advice… Please.

By: Jongware

Jongware — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:59:25 +0000

Nikki,

I have experimented a bit with Harbs’ script, adding a user defined formula in the mix. It works, insofar I can now specify (x + y) (current total plus current cell) and variants, but I’m having a hard time finding a use for subtract and divide.

Each cell only holds one number; what would be the result of subtracting all of them? (Most Likely Answer: the negative of adding all of them, so you can use the original script and type a minus in front of the result).

What would be the result of dividing them against each other? Given the list 1,2,3,4, and ignoring for the moment the first run (as there is nothing specific in ’sum’ at the start), would you want to end up with 1/2/3/4? (= 1/24th)

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:15:49 +0000

@Malin: Unfortunately, the data in the cells are not linked, so you can’t force them to all move. But you can’t really just add 2 new cells in the middle of a table, either. A table is a rectangular grid. You can select a cell and Split it, though.

By: Malin Andersson

Malin Andersson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:02:27 +0000

Hello

A question to tables, perhaps not linked to the topic above.

If I have created a table with data, and I get some new data to add in to 2 new cells in the middle of the table. I don’t want to delete any old data, and I don’t want to add a complete new row in the middle.

Is it possible to push cell data forward to the next cell and further down to a new row. So it goes like a loop down. Or do I have to add a new row and move all the data manual.

It would be great to stand in one cell and push”tab” and the data highlighted jumped to the next cell. = the rest of the data in the following cells also jumped a cell forward.

I am not sure I am making my self clear, a bit hard to explain.

Best regards
Malin