Table with round corners?

[budafist]

Indesign: can you make tables with round corners?

Or will I have to draw a box, put lines through it and make round corners the old fashioned way?

[urstwile]

Create the text frame first. Then select it as an object. Under Object>Corner Effects, choose rounded, adjust to your taste.

Next, click inside the rounded corner text frame with the type tool. Choose Table>Insert Table.

When I tried this, it oddly made the table columns wider than the text frame, but I was able to pull them in after the fact. The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to get rules between the rows to hit the edges of the frame, so in hindsight, it might be easier to do the rounded corner box as a separate object, unless someone else has a genius idea or know how to achieve this. :)

[Alan G]

You could set up a rounded-corner text frame, insert the table, season to taste (oops, sorry -- adjust to fit) then use the table settings to add only horizontal lines between cells. If you adjust the table width carefully, you can make them overlap the stroke around the frame by just a smidgeon*. If you need to, you could do the same for verticals.

Depending on how much you round the corners, you might have to adjust the height of the top and bottom rows, but this should work without too much fuss.

(* There are 3 smidgeons in a tad, 16 tads in a pica.)