On a PC, Alt-Tab is reserved for flipping through your open programs. On the Mac, you can just press Option-Tab to insert a tab inside a table cell. Here’s what she said (with a few small edits for clarity, as I’ve taken this out of context): And it’s not immediately obvious how to do it in InDesign.)įortunately, Anne-Marie answered this conundrum a year and half ago, but I see that it’s hiding inside a comment at the end of another (excellent) blog post. ( Why on earth you’d want to insert a tab into a cell so has also been discussed before, but suffice it to say that sometimes people want a tab inside a cell. (Or, if you’re in the last cell in a table, InDesign inserts a whole new row.) Here’s a little quickie… something that I thought had been covered in a previous blog post, but apparently not! How on earth are you supposed to type a tab in a table cell? After all, when you press tab in a table cell, the cursor jumps to the next cell.
