Image Fills Table Cell?

[Jack]

My document has a page with a 4 x 4 text table,  into which I have successfully placed images sized as I want them. Now, suddenly there has been a change in the behavior, whereby the image expands to fill the available space in the table cell, and I have no success manually resizing the image by dragging its boundary edges.

If one of you can show me how to restore the earlier behavior, I would be grateful. Is that, perhaps, a property setting somewhere within the table?

jwc

[Erica Gamet]

I'm wondering if it's been converted to a graphic cell and you have frame fitting options set to fill the frame.

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

We would need to know exactly what version of InDesign you're using.

The ability to create a real graphic cell was introduced in InDesign CC 2015. With earlier versions, you were anchoring a graphic into a table cell which was usually intended for text.

[Jack]

Well, Steve, that is also very interesting (see my reply just posted). Would you please point me to the procedure for creating a graphic cell. Oh, and it is not not a graphic cell around text. My layout in this case calls for a 4 x 4 array of graphics within a 10 x 7.5" area in an 11 x 8.5" page.

I can also envision (since I have the copy-paste in hand) perhaps doing this without the text table altogether, which I now almost see as an hinderance.

[Steve Werner]

Here's an Adobe Help tutorial on how to insert graphics into a table cell:

Easily add images to table-based layouts |

[Jack]

Thanks, but for me, a simple copy/paste sequence from source image into the text-based table cell seems to be complex.

Best,

jwc

[Jack]

Solved, by copying image from source and pasting it into my doc. Had never tried that before.