Lesson 5-1
Creating Tables (The tools)
Draw Table This will bring up the toolbar
shown on the right here. You can use it to draw a table specific to
your choice or you can also choose from an assortment of predefined
tables for your page. You can also pin the Tables Toolbar to the top
or the bottom of the window by dragging it to the area you would like
to pin it. It will then look like the Toolbar discussed
here.
Insert
will
open a new submenu allowing you to insert a table, by clicking
Table will bring up a new window allowing you to set the size,
layout and set it as the default for new tables if you wish. Rows
or Columns allows you to add more rows or columns to your existing
table. Cell will add a new cell to the specified area you have
chosen. Caption will insert a caption into your table area.
Delete Cells is used to delete cells that you no longer wish to be
in the table.
Select will open another new submenu. If
you choose Table it will highlight your entire table. Choosing
Column will highlight the entire column you have chosen. Row
will highlight and entire row and Cell will highlight just one
cell of the table. This comes in handy fro merging cells or columns or
editing Table properties, etc.
Merge
Cells is a wonderful tool if you have a table already created and
you wish to change just a small portion or large portion of the table
without having to rebuild a new table.
Split
Cells if you wish to split one or many cells you highlight the
cells and then click Split Cells and enter either rows or columns that
you wish to split the cells up into.
Split
Table if you are wanting to split your table into more than one,
you would use this command.
Table
AutoFormat this option allows you to choose from many samples to
let FrontPage automatically design your table.
Distribute Rows Evenly when designing your page quiet often the
rows can become uneven, choosing this option will make all the rows
evenly spaced.
Distribute Columns Evenly as with the option above, this command
will make the columns become evenly spaced.
AutoFit to Contents this option allows FrontPage to decide how to
fit the contents into the table
Convert with this option you have converting from Text to Table or
Table to Text. It will either place your text within a table or it
will remove the table from the text within it.
Fill
depending on how you highlight your table, if you are highlighting by
column then you click the Fill the Down and it will fill the entire
column with the contents of the first cell. If you are highlighting a
row it will fill the contents of the entire row with the content of
the first cell.
Table
Properties this submenu gives you three choices. Table will bring
you a new window in which you can alter the layout, borders,
background, etc to the table. By choosing Cell you can alter the same
content, but for only that one cell instead of the entire table.
Caption will only be highlighted if you have a caption in your page in
which you can then alter it's properties.
The Table Toolbar
Many of the tools included
on the toolbar have been discussed above, and some work slightly
different than the ones above.
Draw Table - This tool allows you to draw the area for your table.
Simply left click on your mouse where you want the table to start and
then drag your mouse until you have the width and length you wish.
Eraser - The eraser can be used to delete lines within the table to
merge two cells together.
Insert Rows - Allows you to insert rows into your table, if you want
more than one row you will have to highlight as many rows as you want
then click the button, or click the button once for every row you wish
to add.
Insert Columns - Allows you to insert columns into your table, as with
the Insert Rows tool you will need to highlight the columns or click
the button once for every column you wish to add.
Delete Cells - Allows you to delete cells from the table, you need to
highlight the cells you wish to delete. Basically what this does is
merges the cells as the tool below.
Merge Cells - When you highlight a set of cells then click on this
button it will merge the cells.
Split Cells - This option will bring up a window asking if you want to
split into columns or rows and how many.
Align Top - This option will align all content in the cell to the top
of the cell
Center Vertically - This option will align all content in the cell to
the center of the cell
Align Bottom - This option will align all content in the cell to the
bottom of the cell
Distribute Rows Evenly - Distributes the rows so they are evenly
spaced
Distribute Columns Evenly - Distributes the columns so they are evenly
spaced
AutoFit to Contents - This tool will fit the cell to the contents that
are in the cell
Fill Color - This will add color to the cell or cells
Table AutoFormat Combo - Simply click on the dropdown menu and
choose a format for your table
Table AutoFormat - Works similar to the above AutoFormat but giving
you more options to design your table
Down - Fills the contents of the chosen cells with the content in the
uppermost cell chosen.
Right - Fills the contents of the chosen cells with the content in the
contents of the first chosen cell on the left.
Section two
of this lesson will show the actual creation of a table using the
Insert Table feature and a movie on using the Draw Table feature.
