Tables with alternating row fills

[Pat Bensky]

What's the trick setting up a table style with alternating row fills? I'm sure I've done this before but can't get it to work now :) Using CS6 ... 

In the Table Style palette I go to Fills and select Alternating Rows. Choose blue, 20% for the first 1 rows and white for the next 1 rows. I've tried all kind of different settings but nothing works ... I still have all white rows ...

What am I doing wrong?

thanks

Pat

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[Pauline Johnson]

Hi Pat,

I just tried the same with CS6 and it worked fine. I created a simple table style — the only thing I changed was the Fills, and made them alternating, like you described. But then I noticed that the style panel showed an override — so I re-applied the table style to the table and selected "clear overrides" and then my table took on the style settings.

I hope it's that simple for you!

Pauline

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[Mike Witherell]

Pat,

 

Carefully read and understand this link to the tables helpfile:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSD405E887-7AAA-432c-97D0-941BA773A47Ea.html

The trick is to remove all the manually applied formatting and manually applied cell styles. After making a hierarchy of a Table Style that coordinates several Cell Styles that might also coordinate Paragraph Styles, you apply the Table Style to the selected table AND THEN proceed to visit the Cell Styles panel and click the bottom buttons that say “Clear Attributes Not Defined By Style” and/or “Clear Overrides in Selection” and you are looking to see that the small + sign has gone away from the None cellstyle.

 

Hierarchically, the applying of attributes can only work correctly from the top down, and it won’t appear to work if you are manually applying the cell styles or if the table or rows or columns had manually applied attributes to begin with. Basically, if you see an evil + sign, try to subdue it, in order to allow the Table Style to command the look of the table, and not have its subordinates countermanding the look of the table.

 

Hope this is helpful!

 

Mike Witherell in Maryland

 

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What's the trick setting up a table style with alternating row fills? I'm sure I've done this before but can't get it to work now :) Using CS6 ... 

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[Pat Bensky]

Mike,

Thanks - your comment about removing manually applied cell styles set me on the path to enlightenment ... in the cell style that is selected for the rows, I had selected a background colour, and once I removed that, it worked OK!

Pat