Comments on: Tab Stops in InDesign Tables

By: NE

NE — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:36:03 +0000

Just want to say thank you. I found this very helpful right now.

By: dann

dann — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:19:26 +0000

i,m sorry maybe it’s need to say that i am using Macintosh computer,,

By: dann

dann — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:17:04 +0000

accidentally, i get my own answer. the tab button on keyboard will back working on table when you press Alt+Tab..

By: dann

dann — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:53:14 +0000

still have big problem when i have a title with long sentence sub points. each point have a sentence that have to be two-more row lines. how to solve ?

By: Narjas Mehdi

Narjas Mehdi — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:18:53 +0000

Thanks David – any more info on anchored objects out there I could read up on? Not sure where to start with those, as I’ve not yet used these. Great idea – just wondering also if it would increase (PDF) file size when exporting… Thanks again for speedy response!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:58:24 +0000

@Narjas: That is an interesting idea, but no, I cannot think of how you would do that with tabs. You could, perhaps, insert an anchored object of the correct width between the words.

By: Narjas Mehdi

Narjas Mehdi — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:35:45 +0000

In tables, is there a way of setting tabs to be a certain distance from the previous word? eg. word1 [tab] word2 [tab] word3 [tab] word4. Whereby the tabbed distances are exactly the same (say 5mm), regardless of the differing lengths of the words used?…. So, some kind of a variable tab option that’s smart enough to detect the beginning of the next word, for example.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:06:27 +0000

Thanks David, that’s what I’ve done

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:43:51 +0000

@Jenny: Interesting. I think the only solution would be to apply a different paragraph style to those cells… one which does not include a decimal align tab stop. Or apply a different horizontal alignment (such as Center), which appears to “turn off” the tab stop behavior.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:04:32 +0000

This is all great advice. But what I’m stuck on is my tables have a dash (-) in them. and instead of sitting in the middle, where I’d like them to be, they sit where the decimal should be, if that makes any sense. I’d really appreciate any help with this!