Solving Problems With Complex Table Formatting

I recently had to design a calendar in InDesign using complex table formatting with very specific requirements for row and column strokes:

• Thick lines separating each month, spanning across the columns
• Names of the months in white, with a colored background
• Individual days with row dividers, but not column dividers
• Row dividers could not span across the columns
• Weekends formatted like the weekdays, but with blue row dividers
• Weeks starting with Monday

Initially, I tried to use InDesign’s row and column strokes to accomplish this, but that proved to be impossible. After mentally chewing on this issue for a week, I decided to almost completely ditch the idea of using row and stroke formatting for this. This table is so complex and unusual that I thought I would share how I created it.

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