Tip of the Week: Tidy Up Your Tables

Mike Rankin

This InDesign tip on how to tidy up your tables was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on September 28, 2017.

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Dealing with a table that looks messy because the columns or rows are unequal in width or height?

You don’t have to spend a lot of time fixing them manually. Instead, let InDesign do the work. Just select the desired range of columns or rows and choose Table > Distribute Columns Evenly and/or Table > Distribute Rows Evenly. Voila! Tidy tables.