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Facing Table on Facing Pages???

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Amepapi

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Jun 21, 2007
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I have to set up a table on a facing pages layout.
The table has 3 columns (A, B, C).
I wish that on left pages the columns order could be "normal" (A, B, C) instead on right pages it colud be inverse (C, B, A).
I tried to mirror the right textframe with "Flip" button, but it mirror EVERYTHING, text included.
There's a way to do that layout???
There's a way to mirror only the columns order, preserving the text normal?

Thanks a lot (and sorry for my poor english)
 
...one method might be to shift select each column, rotate the text cells by 180 degrees (available in the table palette or cell options), then rotate the whole table 180 degrees...

Andrew
 
...to rotate the table, select it and then double click the rotate tool, enter 180 degrees...

Andrew
 
...if you want the rows to not be mirrored order you will have to have them that way to begin with...

...you could duplicate the current table, convert it back to text, re-order and then back to table again...

Andrew
 
Thankyou Andrew.

Your method it's working, but re-arranging the rows it's quite a mess...moreover if the table texts are still "work in progress"...
Honestly i think Adobe has a lot of work to do on Indesign tables...of course i'm not an expert, and maybe there are some workflows i don't know, but some automatic features are simply missing!
To me this "mirrored layout" it's not so unusual to see, so...it's possible i'm the only one asking a solution for this problem??? At this point I'll post a "feature request" on Adobe's official forum :)
Could be very nice to make a script, but i'm trying to figure out from another similar table-related problem and it's a pain!

Anyway...i'll search for another system, but yours it's a good last-chance lifesaver! Thankyou!
 
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