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Tables Seminar with Maria Langer

About Entering Information into Cells You can enter text or objects into table cells by typing, pasting, dragging, or placing it in. Tips Each table cell works like a word processing document that expands vertically to accept what's entered into it. You can use standard text editing techniques to edit the contents of a cell. I tell you about editing text in Chapter 2. By default, each table cell contains a non-breaking space character. Deleting this character in an empty cell changes the appearance of the cell (see Figures 15 and 16). To type text into a cell Click inside the cell to position the insertion point there (see Figure 17). Type the text you want to appear in the cell (see Figure 18). Tips A cell's width may change depending on the length of the text you type and the contents of other cells (see Figure 19). I tell you how to change column width manually later in this chapter. To begin a new line within a cell, press Shift-Return. To begin a new paragraph within a cell, press Return. Press Tab or Shift-Tab to select the contents of the next or previous cell in the table. Or hold down Control and press the Up, Down, Left or Right arrow keys to select an adjacent cell in a specific direction. This makes it possible to fill in table cells without using the mouse to click in each cell.

Figure 15. By default, each table cell has a single space character in it. This gives the appearance of empty cells. Figure 16. As you can see by looking at the first cell in this table, removing all of a cell's contents changes the appearance of the cell. Figure 17. To type information into a cell, begin by positioning the insertion point inside it. Figure 18. Then type in the information that you want to appear. Figure 19. If the information you enter is lengthy, the width of the columns in your table may change.

To paste information into a cell Select the information you want to paste into the cell (see Figure 20). Choose Copy from the Edit menu (see Figure 21) or press Command-C to copy the information to the Clipboard. Click in the cell in which you want to paste the information to position the insertion point there (see Figure 22). Choose Paste from the Edit menu (see Figure 10) to paste in the contents of the Clipboard (see Figure 23). Tip This technique works with text (as illustrated here), objects, or form elements. I tell you more about working with multimedia objects in Chapter 5 and about form elements in Chapter 9. To drag information into a cell Select the information you want to drag into the cell. Position your mouse pointer on the selection, press the mouse button down, and drag toward the destination cell. When a selection box appears inside the destination cell (see Figure 24), release the mouse button. The selection appears in the cell (see Figure 25). Tip This technique works with text, objects (as illustrated here), or form elements. I tell you more about working with text in Chapter 2 and about form elements in Chapter 9.

Figure 20. To paste text into a cell, begin by selecting the text. Figure 21. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the selected text to the Clipboard. Figure 22. Position the Insertion point in the cell in which you want to paste the text. Figure 23. When you use the Paste command, the text appears in the field. Figure 24. You can also drag selected objects or text into table cells. Figure 25. When you release the mouse button, the object or text appears in the cell.

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