Table inside text frame

[Ricardo Gurgel]

Hi.

I was Page Maker user... And today InDesign user.

I make a lot of jobs with very long tables (157 lines at least/8 pages)

And to do this, I aways make a text frame with a table inside to paginate one table to many pages as needed. For me, this is a InDesign key feature, and missing it on Affinity Publisher.

More than this, I see a feel problems with table that I already shared on "issues report", and right now I discovered a "issue" that I cant copy and paste tables inside APub.

I included all that information inside video that follows.

[dominik]

7 hours ago, Ricardo Gurgel said:

nd to do this, I aways make a text frame with a table inside to paginate one table to many pages as needed.

Hello @Ricardo Gurgel,

tables that span across several pages are not available yet. I do unfortunately not know of a way to do what you want.

You could set up paragraph styles with tab stops that might look the same. But you were not able to select columns as there are no columns.

d.

[Lensman]

Though the InDesign method of spanning tables (via spanned text boxes) is clever, I hope Publisher will allow tables to span on their own (without needing to insert it into a text box).

Let's say you have a lengthy table and copy it.  Now you have two or more of the same table with duplicate info/text.  After spanning between the copied tables, the info/text in the table would no longer be separate copies but would combine and adjust as a single block of information as a single table should.  I hope that made sense.   Well, no matter how it is done by the programmers, I look forward to this table-spanning feature, and second Ricardo's request.

[Petar Petrenko]

On 5/13/2019 at 5:57 AM, Lensman said:

Though the InDesign method of spanning tables (via spanned text boxes) is clever, I hope Publisher will allow tables to span on their own (without needing to insert it into a text box).

And what about if the tables need to flow with text?

[Jeremy Bohn]

I agree that tables need to be able to flow with text, however looking at the original poster's menu, almost the exact same thing can be created using tabs instead of a table. I do menus all the time at work and almost always use tabs instead of tables.

[000]

Agree with Jeremy, there is many use cases where you can make clever use of paragraph styles, underlining, rules and tabs.
Also agree with others -- tables inside text frames (especially master text frames to keep everything nicely inside the layout) that flow with the text and can span several pages or columns are important (but probably not essential for the first release).

I'd like it, if Serif did some careful thinking about this ... maybe had a quick look at what InDesign and Quark 2019 are doing ... and re-designed or extended tables some time down the line? Maybe a juiced up version of the "pinned objects" feature?

[Jeremy Bohn]

The fact that instead of inline graphics they did it differently with the "pinning" feature makes me think that for now they are going a different route. Hopefully down the road there will be actual inline images and tables. For my day job I'm often putting graphics inline with the text, and sometimes even a graphic in a table in a text frame. This can come in handy when doing complicated business forms. Then if you have to move things around, you know that everything is coming along for the ride.

[Petar Petrenko]

6 hours ago, Jens Krebs said:

... maybe had a quick look at what InDesign and Quark 2019 are doing

InDesign handles tables way better than Quark. I don't know what the new version of Quark (2019 which will come every moment) is going to bring. But I don't think there will be inline tables.

[000]

@Petar Petrenko

Here's a preview of Quark 2019 tables -- they are inside the text frames and have some spiffy new formatting tools:

https://www.educandi.co.uk/blogs/news/quarkxpress-2019-ptables-reimagined

[000]

6 hours ago, Jeremy Bohn said:

instead of inline graphics they did it differently with the "pinning" feature

Pinned objects are inline objects -- just a bit more flexible.

[Petar Petrenko]

18 minutes ago, Jens Krebs said:

@Petar Petrenko

Here's a preview of Quark 2019 tables -- they are inside the text frames and have some spiffy new formatting tools:

https://www.educandi.co.uk/blogs/news/quarkxpress-2019-ptables-reimagined

Thanks @Jens Krebs. I have seen that video but I missed the info about the inline tables. I've just seen some fency formatings.

[fde101]

7 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

But I don't think there will be inline tables.

There have been for a few years now:

https://support.quark.com/en/support/solutions/articles/19000057156-quarkxpress-2015-new-feature-inline-tables-excel-import-enhancements-

https://www.macworld.com/article/2937784/quarkxpress-2015-review-chock-full-of-new-features-requested-by-you.html