User Guide

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ADOBE INCOPY CS2

User Guide

To resize rows or columns without changing table width

❖ Do one of the following:

• Hold down Shift while dragging an inside row or column edge (not the table boundary). One row or column gets

bigger as the other gets smaller.

• To resize rows or columns proportionally, hold down Shift while dragging the right table border or bottom table

edge.

Holding down Shift while dragging the right table edge will resize all the columns proportionally; holding down Shift

while dragging the bottom table edge will resize all rows proportionally.

To resize the entire table

❖ Using the Type tool , position the pointer over the lower right corner of the table so that the pointer becomes

an arrow shape

, and then drag to increase or decrease the table size. Hold down Shift to maintain the table’s height

and width proportions.

Note: If the table spans more than one frame in a story, you cannot use the mouse pointer to resize the entire table.

To evenly distribute columns and rows

1 Select cells in the columns or rows that should be the same width or height.

2 Choose Table > Distribute Rows Evenly or Distribute Columns Evenly.

To change the spacing before or after a table

1 Choose Table > Table Options > Table Setup.

2 Under Table Spacing, specify values for Spacing Before and Spacing After, and then click OK.

Note that changing the spacing before the table does not affect the spacing of a table row that falls at the top of a

frame.

To break a table across frames and pages

When youcreateatablethatistallerthanthe frameinwhich it resides, theframe is overset. If youthreadthe frame

to another frame, the table continues in that frame. Rows move into threaded frames one at a time—you can’t break

a single row across multiple frames. Specify header or footer rows to repeat information in the new frame.

The Keep options determine how many rows should remain together, or to specify where a row breaks, such as at the

top of a column or frame.

1 Place the insertion point in the appropriate row, or select a range of cells in the rows you want to keep together.

2 Choose Table > Cell Options > Rows and Columns.

3 To keep the selected rows together, select Keep with Next Row.

4 To cause the row to break in a specified location, select an option (such as In Next Frame) in the Start Row menu,

and then click OK.