Objectives of this Tutorial

Generally: To use tables to enable you to give more structure and order to your publications.

Specifically: On completion of this section, you will be able to:

• Create a table
• Add rows and columns
• Resize rows and columns
• Delete rows and columns
• Apply borders to a table

Creating Tables

A table is a grid of rows and columns just like a spreadsheet. Each intersection of a row and column is called a cell.

You can place text, a picture, or any other object within a cell. When you create a table you draw the outline on your page, then in the Create Table dialogue box you specify the number of rows and columns and the style of table you require.

When you draw a table, Publisher will calculate automatically the maximum number of cells in the area you draw with the current font size. The larger the point size, the fewer cells are inserted per page.

To create a table

• On the Objects toolbar, click Table Frame Tool
• Draw out the size of your table on the page

The Create Table dialogue box is displayed.

• Type in the number of rows and number of columns you require in your table

OR

• Click on the arrows to increase or decrease the figures
• From the Table format: box, select a format style you would like to apply to your table

The table format is displayed in the Sample panel.

• Click OK

The table is displayed with the cursor in the first cell.

• Click in the cell you want to type in and type in the text, Publisher will automatically expand the cell to take the text

Moving around in a table

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