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I made this table in illustrator as i was making some different layout designs... I was wonder if there was a way that I could alternate the text color in a table style? I will have about 200 tables in this catalog that i will be making, so i need to set something up so that I can quickly make a table and edit the tables if need be.
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If you set up paragraph styles for the white and yellow text, you can use Apply Style, then Next Style to style the text before turning it into a table.
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So i wouldn't be setting this up in the table styles window?
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No, because it has to happen before creating the table. The styles are applied to the plain text, and then it is converted to a table.
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Also for automating the alternating style application with object styles see #6 here:
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Is this a plug-in? im not sure what im looking at here.
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Is this a plug-in? im not sure what im looking at here.
The capture in my link is of the InDesign Object Style Options, which is available from the Object Styles flyout menu. ID lets you style text frames as objects, and the feature I'm showing lets you alternate paragraph styles within the text frame.
It should be possible to convert an existing table like the one you are showing to text run the alternating p styles via an Object style then convert back to a table.
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Hi,
Will the tables be already done when you'll begin the job?
If yes, just build them with only "White" cell/para styles and, with 1 click, do the "Yellow" changes.
Not sure you really need to apply new cell/para styles!
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Use tabs, not tables. There is nothing there that requires a table. Use the Next Style attribute of your Paragraph Styles to alternate colours. You can then apply the Header (or whatever) style to the top row by selecting all the text and going to Apply "[Style]" then Next Style by right-clicking on the header style in the Paragraph Styles panel.
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Woodwing SmartStyles can help. But this is not free plugin.