Tables

Creating tables, editing rows and columns, and typing into cells.

Creating a table

1. Choose the Table tool (no shortcut).
2. Drag on the canvas. The size you drag sets the number of rows and columns (shown as columns × rows while you drag).
3. Select the table and change the number of Rows and Columns and the Cell inset in the Table section of the Attributes tab.

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• How do I create a table?
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Table editing mode and selecting cells

1. Double-click a table with the Select tool to enter table editing mode.
2. Click a cell to select it; drag to select a range of cells. The arrow keys or Tab/Shift+Tab move the selected cell.
3. Click outside the table to leave editing mode. Esc first clears the selected cell (or line); press it again to leave editing mode.

With cells selected, Delete or Backspace clears their contents. When a single cell is selected, the Attributes tab shows that cell's attributes, and Fill Style sets the cell's background.

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• How do I select several cells?
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Typing into cells

1. In table editing mode, double-click a cell. The cell enters text input. With a cell selected, pressing Enter or simply typing also starts input.
2. Type. Cell text uses the same character and paragraph attributes in the Attributes tab as a text frame.
3. Tab moves to the next cell, Shift+Tab to the previous one and Enter to the cell below, ready to type. Press Shift+Enter for a line break inside a cell. Esc ends input.

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• How do I type text into a table?
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Copying and pasting cells

In table editing mode, select a cell or range and press ⌘/Ctrl+C, then select another cell and press ⌘/Ctrl+V. The right-click menu's Copy, Cut and Paste do the same.

• Cells are filled from the selected cell rightwards and downwards. Anything that would fall outside the table is dropped (rows and columns are not added).
• Copy one cell, select several and paste: every selected cell gets the same content.
• Text formatting in the cells comes along. One undo restores the state before the paste.
• Tables or tab-separated text copied from a spreadsheet or another app fill cells the same way. The other way round, cells copied here paste into other apps as tab- and newline-separated text (and as a table).

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• How do I copy several cells and paste them elsewhere?
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Inserting and deleting rows and columns

In table editing mode, select a cell and right-click.

• Rows › Insert row above · Insert row below · Delete Row
• Columns › Insert column left · Insert column right · Delete Column
• Distribute Rows Evenly · Distribute Columns Evenly — evens out the row heights or column widths of the selection when it spans two or more rows (columns), otherwise of the whole table.
• Clear cell contents

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Merging and splitting cells

1. In table editing mode, drag to select the cells to merge.
2. Right-click › Merge Cells.
3. To undo it, select the merged cell and choose Unmerge Cells; to split a cell, choose Split Cell Horizontally or Split Cell Vertically.

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• How do I merge cells?
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Table lines

Every inner border line in a table is a separately selectable Table line object. The outer border belongs to the table itself.

• In table editing mode, click a border to select that line; the Table line's Stroke Style appears in the Attributes tab. Shift+click selects several lines.
• To hide a single line, set its Stroke Style to None.
• Drag a border to change the width of the column before it or the height of the row above it; the whole table grows or shrinks by the same amount. With one line selected you can also type an X (vertical line) or Y (horizontal line) value in Position & Size to move it precisely.
• The fill and outer border of the whole table are set in the Fill Style and Stroke Style sections with the table selected.

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