Pasting tabular data and fomating in Indesign 1

[laura2611]

I have some tabular data that I have cut and paste from a PDF into InDesign then asked it to covert to table, which it does, but only makes it into rows not columns as well.The columns of data are quite close together and don't seem to respond to making the table using tabs. Is there any way that I can make this data into a proper formatted table, where I can adjust the space between columns?

 

[jimoblak]

When you convert to table, InDesign asks what type of column separator you need (tab, comma, paragraph). You probably only copied spaces from the PDF file.

Consider pasting the PDF data into a plain text editor and manually applying commas or tabs. Some plain text editors may allow you to replace more than one consecutive space with a tab.

 

[laura2611]

Thanks for that jimoblak. That is basically what I ended up doing, but there were lots of tabular data and it took ages. I wondered what it meant when under convert to table, as well as the tab, comma etc options, there is a greyed out 'other' option, is it possible to set that to recognise 'space' to make the columns?