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    Document! X and HelpStudio provides the ability to easily insert and modify tables in your help Topics.

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    Table Editing Fundamentals 

    Creating a table

    To insert a new table, select Insert from the Content Authoring Ribbon Tab. A dialog will be displayed prompting you to specify the number of initial rows and columns and optionally select a style to apply to the new table and cells.

     

    Selecting rows

    To select an entire row, position your mouse over the left-most border at the edge of the row. The cursor will change to a right pointing horizontal arrow. Once you have this cursor, click once to select the row. To select multiple rows, hold down Control as you click to preserve existing settings, or hold down Shift to select all rows between the currently selected row and the clicked row.

     

    Selecting columns

    Selecting columns is very similar to selecting rows, the difference being you hover your mouse on the top-most border at the upper edge of the column. The mouse cursor will change to a downwards pointing vertical arrow. Click the highlight the column, or use the Control or Shift keys as mentioned above to selected multiple columns.

     

    Selecting Cells

    To select a cell, move the mouse to the lower portion of the left-most cell border. The mouse cursor will change to an up-right pointing arrow, click to select the cell. As with other selection methods, you can use Control and Shift to select multiple cells.

     

    Adding new rows

    There are two ways of adding a new row to a table.

    1. Press the Tab key when the cursor is positioned in the last cell of a table and the new row will be placed at the end of the table;

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    2. Click the  Insert Row Before or  Insert Row After button on the Table Editing Ribbon Tab.
    The Table Editing Ribbon Tab is only displayed when the cursor is currently in a Table cell.

     

    Adding new columns

    To insert a column, position the insertion cursor in the cell where you want the new column to be inserted. Then click the  Insert Column Before or  Insert Column After button on the Table Editing Ribbon Tab.

    The Table Editing Ribbon Tab is only displayed when the cursor is currently in a Table cell.

     

    Deleting existing rows

    To delete one or more rows, select them using methods outlined above and select  Delete Row from the Table Editing Ribbon Tab.

    The Table Editing Ribbon Tab is only displayed when the cursor is currently in a Table cell.

     

    Deleting existing columns

    To delete one or more columns, select them using methods outlined above and select  Delete Column from the Table Editing Ribbon Tab.

    The Table Editing Ribbon Tab is only displayed when the cursor is currently in a Table cell.