3 ways to make your tables pop with our latest improvements
Don’t let crucial information get lost in dull tables — our latest improvements will make sure your next table packs a punch.
Tables hold a rich trove of information but more often than not, it gets lost or buried in the design. If they’re little more than a stack of columns and lines, readers may tolerate them to find the one detail they’re after, or they may simply scroll past, missing key points.
Well-crafted tables can supercharge how you summarise, organise, and present important data. Shorthand’s updated tools will help you add a little creativity and design to your tables, to make life easier for readers and add detail and authority to your story.
Read on to learn how you can build stylish, on-brand tables that inform your readers and showcase all of your creative assets.
Make them pop with media in the mix
Traditionally, tables have been limited to lines, characters, and numbers. Unlocking imagery, videos, and media in your tables means you can unleash your creativity when presenting products, images, and information such as pricing and comparisons.
With Shorthand’s new table updates, you can insert your logos, photos, icons, emojis, or videos into individual cells.
Or, if there’s one great image that adds context to your story and table info, why not make it the backdrop and display it behind your table?
Highlight important information at a glance
Scrolling onto a long, monotonous grid can cause fatigue, resulting in readers skipping past it, or clicking away completely. Ensure the content pertinent to your story — like titles and figures — stands out from the finer details.
Now you can adjust the boldness and colour of your gridlines to bring important information to the fore in your Shorthand tables.
Change the text style (bold, italic, underline), and font to help with differentiating between titles, subtitles, and more text-heavy cells.
Create beautiful on-brand tables with more styling options
It’s time to move away from the black and white; let’s leave those charts in the Excel docs of old. Create visually stunning tables that draw your audience in, by adding new cell colours to reflect your branding, or to help you signpost important data points.
Consider adjusting your text style to suit your branding, too. And why stop there? Create visually stunning tables to tell your story — click on the three dots to find more customisation options for your rows and columns.
It’s true that tables haven’t always been the reader’s best friend, but with Shorthand’s new capabilities, there's no limit to how powerful your tables can be in telling your story.
Our updated tables capabilities are ready to use right now.
Use them in your next story or, for a quick test drive, you can try them right here in our corporate annual report template.
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