Creating tables

Tables provide a convenient way of presenting information in a grid of regular rows and columns. Each cell in a table can contain text, graphics, or a combination of the two.

You can change the width of the rows and columns independently, and control the appearance of the table in a variety of ways including the thickness of the border between cells, and the color of the table or cell backgrounds.

You can choose how information is aligned within each cell, and you can merge two or more adjacent cells to create cells which straddle multiple rows or columns.

To create a table

Either:

Or:

In either case the following Insert Table dialog box is displayed to allow you to specify the number of rows and columns:

These are explained later in the chapter.

Note that you can add or delete rows or columns at a later date if you need to.

To type HTML text into a table cell

To import text into a table

You can import tab delimited, comma delimited, or space delimited text into a table. The fields will be formatted into successive cells, automatically expanding the size of the table if necessary to accommodate the items.

If the table is not large enough to accommodate the data the following dialog box will give you the option of expanding it or truncating the data:


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