Copying tables from InDesign and only the text pastes in Illustrator
Hello, I used to be able to copy a table I created in InDesign and copy and paste it into Illustrator with all of the formatting being the same. Now when I go to paste a table, all of the table formatting is missing and it's just a big block of text. Please fix this soon as my company does this on a day-to-day basis for our images. I attached an image of what it looks like when I paste the table in Illustrator.
Destanee Freeman
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Illustrator team is working on a fix for this issue. Meanwhile you can use the below workaround to paste the table as it was before.
Before you copy the table in InDesign, create a path object along with table and then copy from InDesign and Paste in Illustrator. This forces the PDF route for copy/paste between ID and AI
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Kelsey Weyland commented
Hello Rama,
I noticed today that there was an InDesign update that outlined there were fixes for copy/pasting from InDesign into Illustrator. So, I updated my apps and tested it out. Keep in mind that we're creating tables in InDesign.
I tested 3 different files with 3 tables, and everything worked great, but then the fourth and fifth just pasted as plain, unformatted text, with no format. There's nothing different about how any of the files are set up, so I'm not sure why some are working, but others are not.
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To Katherine, I didn't try the above workaround quite yet, but my manager and I self-diagnosed that it was an issue with IDD 2023, so we unstalled and went back to 2022 and pasting tables into AI works just fine!
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Katherine Whitfield commented
This is pretty game-breaking for me as I make dozens of tables in InDesign and paste to Illustrator for work every month. I desperately need a work-around if anyone knows of one.
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Jean-Claude Tremblay commented
That’s bad! Really bad...
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hamko1114
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私の環境でも同じことが起きています。
InDesignで表を作り、Illustratorにペーストすると以下のようになります。2022…テキストは行単位で分割される。表の体裁は維持される。
2023…テキストがペーストされるが表ではなくなる。以前のバージョンで出来ていたことが最新バージョンで出来なくなってしまうと困る方も多いのではないでしょうか。
［回避策］
InDesignで何かほかの図形と一緒にコピーしてからIllustratorでペーストすると、これまで通りの体裁でペーストされるそうです。（他の方に教えていただきました）
https://twitter.com/YUJI_id/status/1584132152215470080-----------------------------
I have the same problem with Illustrator and InDesign.
When I created a table in InDesign and pasted it into Illustrator, the results were as follows.2022 → Text is split by line. The appearance of the table is maintained.
2023 → Text is pasted but not a table.It is sad that what was possible in past versions is not possible in the latest version.
［Workaround］
Copying a table with some shapes in InDesign, we can paste it as a table in Illustrator 2023. I was told by another Japanese user.
