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Wednesday 25 May 2011

Creating Table In PageMaker


There is no concept of tables native in PageMaker, except for the buggy Adobe Table that is included with PageMaker. You can make tables with the line drawing tools and rule above and below paragraph settings, but you must be patient to do this. You will also need to get familiar with Indents and Tabs (CTRL+I) to make PageMaker native tables. Combined with the line tool and rule above and below paragraphs, you can make some good tables.

Having said all that, about the best practices with PageMaker, there is another way if you are on Windows. You can copy and paste tables you make in Microsoft Word to PageMaker. 

Here is the secret:
1.) Make a table of your choice in Word, Select or Copy the whole table, and nothing but the table.


2.) Switch to your PageMaker document. Choose Paste Special from the Edit menu. Choose Enhanced Metafile.




You should now have a nice table.



It usually works, but some service bureaus and printers have trouble with it. I have never had any problems, but I have pretty good luck in these matters.
But there is another and much easier way of making a table with all its contents, that is just by using Edit > Insert Object command.

Follow these steps:
1.Go to ‘Edit’ Menu option in PageMaker and click ‘Insert object’.


2. This will open the ‘Insert Object’ dialog box.


3. Choose ‘Microsoft Word’ from the Object Type option.


4. This will open Microsoft Word-here you create your table along with its content.

5. Simply select the File > Update command or ‘Ctr + S’ key from Microsoft Word.


6. This will automatically import your Word table to PageMaker document.

8 comments:

  1. very nice I like I like it
    thanks

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  2. very nice easy to understand

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  3. thanks for your useful comments and appreciations....

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  4. Thanks for this very useful and good idea you have given to us Sir. I am very greatful to you Sir.
    Please give me an idea about insert "special
    characters" in MS word (very useful for Hindi, Marathi) option
    in Page maker

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  5. Thank for the useful info.
    I want to ask about 'enhanced metafile'. Do you know how to edit an enhanced metafile in the page maker file? I have a project to edit some arabic page maker files, but i cant find a solution to edit the specific arabic texts which was inserted as enhanced metafile datas.

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  6. THANKS FOR GIVE THIS INFORMATION
    I AM TOTALLY Confused I DON'T INSERT TABEL.
    THANKS TO THIS MAN
    THIS MAN WILL BE GOD

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