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How to Use Tables

Why Use Tables?

Tables are a great tool for organizing data, photos, and blocks of text. They can transform cluttered pages into pages that are easy to scan and visually interesting. They also can add a design element to your page when you fill them with images or photos.

If you haven't experimented with the "Table" tool in the EasyEdit Toolbar yet, give it a try!

Adding and editing a table	Adding content into a table

Adding and editing a table

Adding content into a table

Tips:
To edit a table: Highlight the table and then right-click to bring up the table menu. You can add/delete rows and columns, select an entire table, change the width of the table, change the color of the table and change the look of the table borders (including choosing the "no border" option.)

To center a table on the page: Before you create the table, place your cursor on the page and then select the "centered" text button in the toolbar. Once your cursor is centered, then click the "Table" button and continue.

Here are some examples of creative use of tables:

Example #1, wikiFido: There are two tables-- a horizontal table stacked on top of a long vertical table.

Example #2, from a Bob Dylan site: Tables here create a photo/caption directory. Notice that the table borders are hidden for a cleaner look.

Example #3: Tables can organize free-form photos into well laid-out photo galleries.

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Example #4: How tables can organize text into lists that are easy to scan. Tables can also group text for organization.

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tangledmanes

suggestion: set table default width to 778

Oct 28 2009, 3:32 PM EDT by tangledmanes

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I think it would be helpful to have the default table width set to 778 instead of 400. It would save folks a lot of time trying to figure out how wide to make a table without resorting to "Fit to page."

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Anonymous

Uploading an existing table that is in an HTML format

Jul 20 2009, 12:06 PM EDT by CryingDove

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I have a directory structure that has say 10 folders. Each of te folders as a misture of PDF, WMV, AVI & DOC files. The root of the structure there is a html file that is a table that has links to the various files within the folder. How can I upload this whole structure and have the links entact?

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