Basic table question

[Nina_Storm@adobeforums.com]

CS2

Until now I haven't use tables much. Now I took the chance.

I am in a hurry and have two basic question which I cannot manage to
find the answer for right now.

Question 1:
I place a tab-separated table from Excel in Indesign and convert to
table - format and everything is nice. I have to do the same table
containing other figurs, but I cannot select the text in my formatted
table and paste the new tab-separated text into the cells.

Do i really have to format once more, or paste one cell separately?


Question 2:
Isn't it possible to make a cell or a row style?

I guess the 2 question are related and maybe the answer is xml, can you
give me a hint?

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Regards Nina Storm

[Nini Tjäder]

Nina - There are no tablestyles in ID natively. You would have to buy an additional commercial plug-in for it. So if you place an Excel table that is formatted and do some work in it in ID and thyen need to re-place the tablecontent from Excel - yes, reformatting has to be done manually.

There is TableStyles < <http://www.teacupsoftware.com/products/tablecellstyles1_0.html>>
and there is Sm artStyles from WoodWing < <http://www.woodwing.com/smartstyles.htm>>.

And I am sure Dave has a script somewhere... ;)

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

And I am sure Dave has a script somewhere...




In the thread next door:
Dave Saunders, "Moving text into the next cell" #1, 17 Aug 2006 7:09 pm </cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bc14d75/0>

[Nina_Storm@adobeforums.com]

Nini and Gerald your input are most appreciatet.

I will have a closer look when things calm down.

I did the formatting over again. You are always faster the second time
you know :-)

I did however read the other link about "Moving text into the next cell"
and I got the feeling that this might help me too, but I was too hurry
to try and test - I certainly will do as soon as possible.

I finished the job and it look good, everything was nice.
Then our printer broke totally down. A true delightful Friday.

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Regards Nina Storm

[Nini Tjäder]

Gerald - thread next door means nothing to me as I read by digest and never visit the forum except for replying.

As for that thread - wasn't that for moving info around between cells, not for keeping the formattting when re-placing an Excel spreadsheet and thereby replaing done formatting with the one from Excel?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Nini,

Yes it was, but the purpose of my script is to allow re-import of Excel data from the clipboard to an existing designed table. It just happens that it can also be used for that other purpose.

Dave

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

Nini,
I read the forum by opening all links and closing each tab after reading that thread. and I read your "he's gotta have a script" right after closing the tab where Dave posted the link to PopTabFmClip. Which is the script in question. Which does exactly what was asked for: filling a table from the data in the clipboard without destroying the formatting.