I am showing how I created a table like the image below.
1. Create a table with your own style. For example: font family, font size, border color, line weight etc.
2. Use the “Rectangle” tool to draw a rectangle to be the header row. If you have the “Smart Guides” turned on, it will help you to make the width of the rectangle the same as the table below.
3. Color the rectangle to make it look different from the rest of the table. I made it gray. Then go to “Object” and click “Corner Options” to bring out the option window.
4. Click the “chain” icon first to break the link of 4 corners. And then choose “Rounded” for the left up and right up corner. If you check “preview” then you can see those two corners changed to rounded ones.
5. Click “Text” tool and then click anywhere INSIDE the gray box. You will see the cursor appeared on the left up corner as the image below.
6. Go to “Table” and click “Insert Table”. It will bring up an option window. Set 1 row and 4 columns. You can set 1 column too but I made 4 because in my table there are 4 columns. I need different title for each column. And in the bottom, you will see “Table style”, I set it as “spec table” which is the same as the table content (4 columns with white lines in between). Click “OK”.
7. Now you will be able to see you inserting a one-row table in the gray box. Go to “Object” and choose “Text Frame Options”.
8. In the pop up window, you will see “Vertical Justification”. Change the “Align” from “Top” to “Bottom”.
9. Highlight the table (not the gray box). Change the border color to “None”. Then you will see the outside border is gone but the white lines are still there.
10. Type the titles in the table and change the style as you want. I already set the header style at the beginning so I just highlight the table and picked the style that I preset.
11. Move the gray box on top of the table you create on step 1. You can move the white line to make the header and the table body match together.
That’s it!
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