Tutorials for web publishers
Creating Tables
Overview
This section covers the following material.
- Background information on tables
- Creating tables for tabular data
- Creating tables for layout
Tables: Background Information
There are two types of table:
- tables for tabular data
- and tables for layout.
Tables for layout require the border set to 0 and Tabular Data requires that the header (column names) be declared.
Tutorial
Creating a table
- Open a page for editing.
- Place the insertion point in your draft where you want the table to appear.
- Click Edit.
- Click Insert menus and select Table.
- The pop-up menu to the right appears.
To declare the header, select its orientation from the header menu at the bottom of the list of options.
Adding rows
- Place the insertion point in a table cell, or select an entire row.
- Select from the menu Table>Insert>Insert Row Above or Table>Insert>Insert Row Below.
Adding columns
- Place the insertion point in a table cell, or select an entire column.
- Select from the menu Table>insert>Insert Column to the Left or Table>Insert>Insert Column to the Right.
Deleting rows and columns
To delete rows or columns from the table
- Select one or more of the cells you would like to remove
- Press Delete or Backspace
To remove Cell Contents
- Select one or more of the cells you would like to clear
- Select Edit>Clear from the menu
Tables – Tabular Data and Layout
Tables have two uses: holding data and layout of information.
Data Tables
The table below is an example of a data table:
Layout Tables
The table below is an example of a layout table:
In the above example you would modify the table so that there were no borders. The borders have been left so you could see roughly how to layout a page using tables.