Flowing Tables with InDesign Help

[JPFXM]

I am designing a price book and need to have a table on the page with all the information on it. There are about 30 pages and items need to be able to be added to each page in the future. How do I make the tables flow into each other so you can add something into page 1 and everything just moves down one spot?

(at the moment i have to start at the last page and copy/paste it down a line and so on untill I get to the location where the new item needs to be added and this takes a long time)

Please help

 

[Eggles]

Select the Text tool. Position the cursor at the left edge of the table row above or below where you wish to insert new rows. When the cursor changes to a thick black arrow*, click the mouse and the row will be selected. Go to Table>Insert>Row, and you will get a dialog box asking how many rows and whether they are to be inserted above or below the selected row. When the row(s) have been added, the extra rows in the table will flow onto the next page (assuming the whole table is one single table).

* this is the slightly tricky bit - the text cursor has to be right over the left edge of the table.

 

[JPFXM]

How do i make the table one single table when there are 30 pages without overlapping the header and footer images I have? Also I what to retain the first row of the table on every page because it contains the titles.

 

[Eggles]

>>Also I what to retain the first row of the table on every page because it contains the titles.<<

Now that's a lot more difficult. The only way that ID can retain the headings on the top row of every page is to copy that row in place. If you add or subtract rows then you are going to have to adjust the placement of the header rows.

>>without overlapping the header and footer images I have<<

You will have to adjust the bottom of the text frame on each page so it doesn't overlap the footer. If the header/footer are on a master page but beyond the level of the margins, then you can see on each page where the bottom of the text box must end.

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[Lessa]

I would make the header and first row a separate text box and put it on a master. Then just flow your table directly under it so it looks like it's part of the table.

 

[JPFXM]

That is what I ended up doing and works fine