FrontPage 2003 offers no less than four methods for creating a table. Here are two of the easier methods.
Using the Insert Table button
The Insert Table button suits people who want fast results. Two clicks of the mouse, and you have a perfectly good table. Try this:
1. Place the cursor in the page where you want the table to appear.
If the cursor location doesn't exactly correspond to where you want the table to sit inside your page, just do the best you can; you can more precisely position the table later by using alignment options or positioning.
2. On the Standard toolbar, click the Insert Table button.
A grid of white boxes representing table rows and columns appears underneath the button.
3. Click and drag your pointer on the grid until the number of highlighted boxes equals the number of rows and columns you want your table to contain.
As you highlight boxes, the table dimensions appear at the bottom of the grid. If you drag past the last box in a column or row, the grid expands.
If you don't know exactly how many rows or columns you need, just pick something close. You can always add or delete rows and columns later.
4. Release the mouse button.
A new, empty table appears in your page.
Scrunching existing text into a grid table
If you're more comfortable with your trusty word processor than you are with FrontPage, you can convert text separated with tabs, commas, or any other character into a table. To do so, follow these steps:
1. In the page, insert the text you want to appear inside the table.
Separate each line of text you want to appear in its own row by placing the text inside its own paragraph. Section each row into "columns" by separating the text with tabs, commas, or some other character. Don't worry if the spacing is uneven — everything lines up nicely when you convert the text into a table.
2. Highlight the text, and then choose Table --> Convert --> Text to Table.
The Convert Text to Table dialog box appears.
3. Select the option next to the text separator you want FrontPage to recognize when it creates columns.
If the text separator in your page isn't a tab or comma, select the Other option and then, in the accompanying text box, type the text separator character.
4. Click OK.
The dialog box closes, and a table materializes around the selected text.
FrontPage can also convert Microsoft Word tables and Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets into Web page tables. Just cut and paste portions of a Word, Excel, or Lotus 1-2-3 file into an open page in FrontPage.
Inserting stuff into a table
You can insert anything into a table cell that you can into a regular page: text, pictures, and even other tables. Just click inside a cell and proceed as usual. By default, cell height and width stretch to accommodate whatever you place inside.
Text entered into a cell wraps as you type, which means that, when the text reaches a cell boundary, the word being typed jumps down to a new line. You create new paragraphs in a cell by pressing Enter and create line breaks by pressing Shift+Enter.
If you're ready to type text in another cell, press Tab until the cursor ends up in the destination cell and then type away. If you press the Tab key when the cursor is sitting in the last cell in the bottom row of the table, a new table row appears, and the cursor jumps to the first cell in that new row so that you can continue to add to the table. To move the cursor backward through a table, press Shift+Tab.
To effortlessly fill a row or column with the same contents as the first cell of that row or column, insert something into the first cell in the row/column, select the row/column, and then click the Fill Down or Fill Right button on the Tables toolbar. If the Tables toolbar isn't visible, choose View --> Toolbars --> Tables.
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