Comments on: Moving A Table Row to a New Position

By: Rudi Warttmann

Rudi Warttmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:25:19 +0000

Another weird thing, or let’s say a lack of function:
If you copy a complete row into the clipboard, you don’t have a chance to choose whether you’d like to paste either the cells’ content only or the cells as such (with all their attributes), which is the default.
Hence, if you create a new table row, select it and press Ctrl/Cmd-V, all cell attributes will be applied as well.
Workaround for c+p content only:
1. Copy the complete table row.
2. Paste it into a “stupid” text editor like “Notepad” on WIN.
3. Copy it again in this text editor.
4. Select the table row in InDesign and press Ctrl/Cmd-V.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:50:56 +0000

Dural, no there is really no fix (if I understand the problem correctly). InDesign cannot break tables across two columns; each cell must be able to fit in the table. If the row should be able to fit, then perhaps there is some other problem, such as a Keep With Next Row setting (in the Rows and Columns tab of the Cell Options dialog box).

By: Durai

Durai — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:50:56 +0000

Hello,

I have had a strange problem with Indesign tables. I have a 2 column text frame on an A6 page. I insert a table in the left side column. The table works fine as long as the content in the cell can fit within that column. However if the content of a single cell runs beyond the column height, all the text seems to disappear. Can anyone let me know if there is a fix for this?

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:33 +0000

This is what I was looking for …. except I am going to able this to columns.

By: Wa Veghel

Wa Veghel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:04:12 +0000

Yes, it is a CS3 only feature that lets you copy/paste Excel data to InDesign tables, but we were talking about only CS3. In CS2 the script is very useful, in CS3 you simply do not need it any more.

By: Suhaib Ali

Suhaib Ali — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:09:31 +0000

ok. i m satisfy with u that help to me to move the row by cut and paste.

By: emmanuel schaffner

emmanuel schaffner — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:33:13 +0000

If you select a group of cells instead of a row (or column), you can cut (or copy) the data and leave the cells intact.
The trick is to select all the row (or column) but one cell.

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:12:07 +0000

It’s not table styles that obsoletes PopTab in CS3. It’s the ability to paste the clipboard into a table just like PopTab makes possible in CS and CS2.

Dave

By: Daniel Rodney

Daniel Rodney — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:36:48 +0000

FYI: CS3 includes the copy in Excel, Paste into an InDesign table features like Dave Saunders (excellent) script offered. It’s great that this ability is now built into CS3. Just make sure to highlight at least the top left cell before pasting.

By: Michael Trout

Michael Trout — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:26:55 +0000

If you have Dave Saunder’s PopTabFromClip script and access to Excel (or other spreadsheets I would surmise although I’ve not tested it), you could also copy the content of the table and paste to Excel.

Reorder the cells in Excel as desired.

Copy from Excel and run the script to populate the table with the new order.

Fails horribly if there are merged cells in the table, though.

Wa, that script is still HIGHLY useful for those of us that have tables upon tables of data (rates for insurance for example) that have to be reliably pasted into an InDesign table without messing up the formatting. I do not know if CS3 and Table styles makes this less critical as I am still in the world of CS2. I use Dave’s old Apple script from InDesign 2 days (still works quite well aside from the merged cell note above).

For a simple group of rows (or columns) I use a method basically the same as David has outlined. Although I usually wait to delete the old row until after I’ve pasted the new row data.

-mt