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  • February 19, 2026
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Alex Paclin

 

I’m trying to make a table with these parameters:

  • 4 columns
  • Individual cells in columns 1–3 (like “expected shipment date”, expected delivery date”...)
  • The table has to stretch horizontally proportionally with content always staying in its columns
  • Columns 1–3 are grouped with the border

I don’t see how this is achievable in an adequate way. The way I did it now is having a second table underneath just for borders for columns 1–3 (“table 2” layer). 

With one layer it’s only possible to:

  1. Sacrifice grouping columns 1–3, then each cell will have it’s own border.
  2. Sacrifice stretching, then you can just adjust the cell’s border.
  3. Group columns 1–3 and use auto-stretching auto layout inside, but columns won’t stretch proportionally.

Do you see any way to achieve that?

The table
“Table 1” layer (with content and individual cells)
“Table 2” layer (with the border 1–3 columns border)

Also attached the recording of how it’s stretching. It’s working, but like I said the second layer adds complications.

Best answer by Alex Paclin

I figured it out. Basically you need to create tables inside of tables. So columns 1–3 would be a nested table. Then it scales proportionally and it's all within one parent layer.

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  • February 19, 2026

I figured it out. Basically you need to create tables inside of tables. So columns 1–3 would be a nested table. Then it scales proportionally and it's all within one parent layer.