Adobe 65009333 User Guide - Page 251

USING INCOPY CS4 245 Tables Define table and cell styles If you work with a standalone story, you can define, modify, and apply table and cell styles in InCopy. If the styles you want exist in another InCopy document, you can import those styles into the current document. You cannot import table or cell styles from an InDesign document. For a video tutorial on using table styles, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0084. 1 If you want to base a new style on the formatting of an existing table or cell, place the insertion point in a cell. 2 If desired, define a paragraph style for the cell style. 3 Choose New Table Style from the Table Styles panel menu, or choose New Cell Style from the Cell Styles panel menu. 4 For Style Name, type a name. 5 For Based On, select which style the current style is based on. 6 To define a style shortcut, position the insertion point in the Shortcut text box and make sure that Num Lock is on. Then hold down any combination of Shift, Alt, or Ctrl (Windows) or Shift, Option, and Command (Mac OS), and press a number on the numeric keypad. You cannot use letters or non-keypad numbers for defining style shortcuts. 7 To specify the formatting attributes, click a category on the left and specify the attributes you want. For example, to assign a paragraph style to a cell style, click the General category, and then choose the paragraph style from the Paragraph Style menu. For cell styles, options that don't have a setting specified are ignored in the style. If you don't want a setting to be part of the style, choose (Ignore) from the setting's menu, delete the contents of the field, or click a check box until a small box appears in Windows or a hyphen (-) appears in Mac OS. 8 If you want the new style to appear in a style group you've created, drag it to the style group folder. See also "Group styles" on page 181 Table Styles video Load (import) table styles from other documents You can import table and cell styles from an InDesign or InCopy document into a standalone InCopy document or InCopy content that is linked to InDesign. You can determine which styles are loaded, and what should occur if a loaded style has the same name as a style in the current document. Note: If you import styles into linked content, new styles are added to the InDesign document when the content is updated, and any style with a name conflict is overridden by the InDesign style with the same name. 1 From the menu of the Cell Styles or Table Styles panel, choose Load Cell Styles, Load Table Styles, or Load Table And Cell Styles. 2 Double-click the InDesign document containing the styles you want to import. 3 In the Load Styles dialog box, make sure that a check mark appears next to the styles you want to import. If any existing style has the same name as one of the imported styles, choose one of the following options under Conflict With Existing Style, and then click OK: Use Incoming Style Definition Overwrites the existing style with the loaded style and applies its new attributes to all cells in the current document that used the old style. The definitions of the incoming and existing styles appear at the bottom of the Load Styles dialog box so you can compare them. Updated 29 April 2009