User Guide

Place the insertion point in the table you want to affect, and then right-

click on the table and select Table Properties. In the Table Properties

dialog box, set the layout, border, and background options.

Once the table options are set, you can address the cell-level formatting.

Place the insertion point in the cell you want to affect (or if you want to

format a range of cells, select the range), and then right-click on the

selected cell(s). Select Cell Properties. In the Cell Properties dialog box,

set the layout and background options.

Sizing a

Table and

Its Elements

A table created by FrontPage usually takes up the entire width of a page

because, by default, a table’s width is set to 100 percent. That isn’t always

desirable, especially if you’re using a table as a page layout tool rather than a

data table. To control the size of a table, you can specify the exact size in pix-

els one of three ways: using the Table Properties dialog box, have FrontPage

AutoFit a table to its contents (choose Table→AutoFit To Contents), or manu-

ally drag a table element’s border to the desired size.

TOPIC D

Converting a Text File into a Table

You’ve created tables yourself, and now it’s time to learn how to handle information given to

you into tables.

Let’s face it, not many of us work by ourselves all of the time. It’s quite possible that some-

where along the way someone will be helping us. Part of that assistance might be to contribute

content. It would be unrealistic to expect everyone to give you formatted HTML pages. No,

more likely is the fact that someone will give you a ﬁle, such as one that has been exported

from a database, that you will have to work on in order to include its contents in a page.

Convert a Text File into a Table

Procedure

Reference:

FrontPage can convert selected text into a table. The application looks at the

selection for speciﬁc text characters to determine where columns will be

created. FrontPage can separate text at paragraphs, tabs, commas, or any other

character that you provide. (It can also put an entire selection into a one-cell

table.)

Select the text to be converted.

Choose Table→Convert→Text To Table.

Select the character where you want FrontPage to separate the text into

columns.

Click OK.

FrontPage can also convert an existing table into text.

LESSON 2

Lesson 2: Working with Tables

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