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Combining 2 tables into 1

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doodler22

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Oct 16, 2006
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I have a document that someone else created. It has 1 table that goes across 4 pages. The person that made it used separate frames for each page so the table is split into parts. I'd like to combine the parts into 1 table so that I can make edits to the table and it flow across the pages. How can I combine the tables?
I'm on ID v.3 on a PC.
 
If it is already one table then how would you combine it into one table?

Tables are just like stories that can span several frames. Just edit in the same way you would do a story.
 
Let me explain it this way -- it's supposed to be one big table, but the original creater split the table up in different frames. For example, there's 1 frame on page 2 with a table that has 15 rows and 2 columns. On page 3, there's 1 frame with 17 rows and 2 columns. If I add 4 rows to page 2, the table doesn't flow onto page 3 - I get the red box in the bottom right corner. If I click the red box, and link it to the frame on page 3, the rows flow onto page 3, but there's a gap between the tables. I want to eliminate that gap, so that it's one big table.
Make more sense?
 
There may be a script or plugin that does that (google for table linking in InDesign or something similar)...to do it manually, I would go to the first table and add the number of rows that are in the 2nd table. Then, select all the cells in the 2nd table and copy, then select all the new blank rows you added in the 1st and paste (remember to select the cells, not have your cursor sitting within the cell). This will only work however, if there are equal columns in each table. Also, the cell structure (height and width) will be based on the first table. Repeat for tables 3 and 4. Now, since it's one long table, you can link the text frames from page to page but be working with one table only. Hope that helps.

-Erica Gamet
 
Thanks Erica. That's what I ended up doing. Fortunately it was only a matter of adding about 30 new rows, and then copying the cells from the 2nd table into the first. It didn't take too much time. I just hoped there would be a Join Table command (or Merge Table).
 
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