Now that it’s a “header row” it will show up at the beginning of every new frame of this table. Next, I need to change that first row into a real header row, which you can do by placing your cursor in the row (or selecting it), and choosing Table > Convert Rows > To Header. I’ll just add “continued” to one of the cells. Now that we have the basis for two headers, I’m going to edit the one on top-the first row. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. If you have an earlier version, you can duplicate the row by copying it, inserting a new empty row, selecting the empty row, and then pasting.) (That Option/Alt drag trick only works in CC 2014 or later. (In the following image, you can see my cursor immediately after I made the duplicate, and the new row is selected, so it appears tan-colored.)
I’m going to do that by selecting the whole row (just click to the left of the row to select it), then place my cursor over one of the selected cells, and Option/Alt drag or down just a little. But what if you want a slightly different header at the top of subsequent pages-for example, a regular heading on page 1 and then a header that says “continued” on the other pages.įirst, we need to duplicate the row that we want to turn into a table header. You probably already know that InDesign has a feature that lets you put headers at the top of each table, even when the table spans across two or more columns, text frames, or pages.