Help+Manual supports fully-formatted complex tables. Your tables can have styles, borders, background colors, background images, alternating colors in alternating rows and much more. Tables break automatically at page boundaries in PDF and other print-style output formats, both between rows and within rows.
You can also define styles for tables in the same way as for paragraphs. This allows you to format complex tables in seconds and when you change the style definition all tables formatted with the table style will be updated automatically.
You can insert tables with the Table tool in but all the main tools for manipulating tables are in the tab of the ribbon. Most of the tools here are self-explanatory – just make selections in your table and select the tools.
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•Table styles are defined and managed together with paragraph and text styles. To create and edit table styles select Styles > Edit Styles in the tab.
•To apply a style to a table just click in the table and then select and select the style you want to use.
•You can also select a style when you are defining a new table.
See Table styles for more details.
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A table is inserted as a single paragraph containing a single object (the table). It is not possible to add any more objects to this paragraph. For example, if you type a character in the paragraph before or after the table this will automatically insert a new paragraph. This has two important consequences:
•You can delete an entire table by pressing the or key once.
•You can indent and center tables by applying paragraph formatting to the paragraph containing the table. |
You can copy and paste both the contents of individual cells and of multiple cells. To copy multiple cells select all the cells you want to copy with the mouse and copy to the clipboard. Then click in position where you want to insert and the same number of cells will be overwritten from that point.
Warning: Pasting multiple cells overwrites the target cells!
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See also:
Table styles