Comments on: How to Use Text Wrap Within a Table

By: kezliura

kezliura — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:43:06 +0000

The text wrap will only affect objects below the anchor, not above the anchor.

By: Kelly Vaughn

Kelly Vaughn — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:34:50 +0000

I just realize you were talking about widths, not heights. Sorry.

By: Kelly Vaughn

Kelly Vaughn — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:33:01 +0000

In your Row Height setting, change “Exactly” to “At Least.” With At Least being the smallest of your row heights, or even smaller if you like. That will enable the rows to expand to fit your text, but not collapse past the height you specify.

By: George Constable

George Constable — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:48:49 +0000

@ Lemonshrew, I also need to find away of having table cell widths act more like Word tables.
It’s annoying that this most basic feature, has been overlooked, we should be able to state the amount of extra spacing to surround the longest line of text in table columns….script anyone?

By: Lemonshrew

Lemonshrew — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:10:33 +0000

Does anyone know of a way to make table cells/columns “Fit Frame To Content” ?

For example, if you have a table with:

Pears Pineapples Apples
Oranges Mango’s Bananas

The client does not want the columns to be the same width (thereby ruling out the use of “Distribute Columns Evenly”).

Instead they want 24 pts of space between each column (from the “s” in Oranges to the 2nd column, from the “s” in Pineapples to the 3rd, etc.).

So what I have been doing is setting the cell style with 24 pts of padding on the right and then bumping the cell width back a point at a time until I get the “Overflow” icon, and then bumping it back out a point. Most of the time that works good enough for me. But when I have a book with about a thousand tables (as I do now), I get kinda frustrated.

I love the “Fit Frame To Content” feature for regular text boxes. I wish that was an option in tables.

Any ideas?? Workarounds??

Thanks!

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:01:39 +0000

As far as I know – the text wrap will only affect objects below the anchor, not above the anchor.

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:17:53 +0000

Here’s a related post where I tried to describe the weird issue of text wrap and inline objects: http://indesignsecrets.com/the-great-paragraph-composer-paradox.php

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:58:23 +0000

Yes, that is the case. According to the InDesign engineer’s there is some sort of infinite repeat that happens if they try to implement text wrap before an anchored object.

That is why I recommend (at least in a table) to put your anchored object at the beginning of the paragraph so you can wrap everywhere.

If you need to move the anchored object, just open the story editor to drag and drop it to the beginning.

By: Petteri Paananen

Petteri Paananen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:54:02 +0000

I have noticed before with other kind of usage of anchored object and text wrap that if you put your anchored object above anchor, textwrap doesn´t work…. it only works if object is below achor…. is there any workaround for that?

See image:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/133381/achor.jpg

By: Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie Concepcion — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:02:25 +0000

ROFL