User Guide

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ADOBE INCOPY CS2
User Guide
Table stroke and fill options
When selecting strokes and fills for the table, use the following options:
Weight Specifies the line thickness for the table or cell border.
Type Specifies the line style, such as Thick-Thin and Solid.
Color Specifies the color of the table or cell border. The choices listed are those available in the Swatches palette.
Tint Specifies the percentage of ink of the specified color to be applied to the stroke or fill.
Gap Color and Gap Tint Applies a color or tint to the areas between the dashes, dots, or lines. These options are not
available if Solid is selected for Type.
Overprint When selected, causes the ink specified in the Color drop-down list to be applied over any underlying
colors, rather than knocking out those inks.
To display frame boundaries of a table without stroke or fill
❖ Choose View > Show Frame Edges.
Adding alternating strokes and fills to a table
You can alternate strokes and fills to enhance readability or improve the appearance of your table. Adding alternate
strokes and fills to table rows does not affect the appearance of the table’s header and footer rows. However, adding
alternate strokes and fills to columns does affect header and footer rows.
Note: Alternating stroke and fill settings override cell stroke formatting, unless you select the Preserve Local Formatting
option in the Table Options dialog box.
Before (left) and after (right) alternating fills in a table
To add alternating strokes to a table
1 With the insertion point in the table, choose Table > Table Options > Alternating Row Strokes or Alternating
Column Strokes.
2 For Alternating Pattern, select the type of pattern you want to use. Select Custom if you want to specify a pattern—
for example, one column with a thick black line followed by three columns with thin yellow lines.
3 Under Alternating, specify the stroke or fill options for both the first pattern and the subsequent pattern. For
example, you may want to add a solid stroke to the first column and a Thick-Thin line to the next column, so that
they alternate. Specify 0 for Next if you want the strokes to apply to every row or column.
Note: In tables that span multiple frames, alternating strokes and fills for rows do not restart at the beginning of
additional frames in the story. (See “To break a table across frames and pages” on page 247.)
4 Select Preserve LocalFormattingifyou want formattedstrokes previously appliedtothe tabletoremainineffect.
5 For Skip First and Skip Last, specify the number of rows or columns at the beginning and end of the table in which
you do not want stroke attributes to appear, and then click OK.