IMAGINATIVE SOLUTION NEEDED - Indesign...

Hello there,



I am a proficient professional user of ID-CS3.



I am currently making a table which I am having a bit of an issue with, I wonder if anyone can come up with a creative way to achieve it?



the table needs to look like this:



娄------------------------------------------------------------娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄****************娄---------------娄--------------娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄----------------娄---------------娄--------------娄-------------娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄#########娄#########娄*************娄

娄****************娄---------------娄--------------娄*************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄*******************************娄****************************娄

娄------------------------------------------------------------娄



wow, that was old-school to make, anyway:



I need the text in the L shaped boxes to flow around the inner cells. Not using dodgy forced linebreaks and tabs etc.



It isn't possible to link cells so the only way I have currently come up with is to create the table and then overlay 2 text boxes over each quarter with the smaller one displacing the text of the larger one.



can anyone got a more elegant solution?



Thanks



TOM
IMAGINATIVE SOLUTION NEEDED - Indesign...
Hi,



My solution would be to take a sort of graph paper approach to the task.

Create a grid and then make your final shape by merging cells, like if

you were drawing on graph paper. Each L shape would be three merged cells.
IMAGINATIVE SOLUTION NEEDED - Indesign...
but you CAN'T merge cells in L shape way :)



robin



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indeed, you cannot merge cells into an L, and I need to be able to edit contents with the text flowing through the whole L rather than manually chop the end of the para off and paste it in the cell below

Aaah, a small setback. I can select them but -- as you say -- not merge

them. Don't you just hate it when reality ruins a great idea?

I retire defeated, having managed to crash CS3 trying various merge

options with cell ranges.

thanks for trying though!

You are most welcome.

I have to confess, I don't necessarily follow you. The visual aid isn't helping me, but all that could be my own fault. The subsequent posts about ''L-shape'' did get me thinking, however.



So...would it help if you could nest an L-shaped text frame in a single cell? I just tried it and it's possible using simple copy/paste.

sorry... here is a link to the Doc that the author provided me.



http://www.cpd.info/exampletable.doc

and do this the same way ;)

bottom layer - table with 4 cells

top layer - table with 4 cells + TextWrap to TextFrame



robin



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www.adobescripts.com

I honestly don't see why this needs to be done with tables to begin with (but then again, I hardly ever see a reason to use a table). Why not grouped and threaded frames with a frame break inserted after each paragraph or built into the style?



Peter

the only real reason is that when lines of text and/or paras are added or removed you can simply resize the dimension of the whole column, row etc. not resize and thewn line up every element seperately. (ie have tp reduce height of all the top boxexs, realign, then have to expand height of all bottom boxes so it fits fukllpage still, realign, then marry row to row, before realising there is now more white space around text in bottom line so adjusting it all again, etc etc)



I am just curious to find a perfect solution that isn't a fudge, and is adaptable