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To open the Formatting dialog for one cell or for the table as a whole:
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Click in a cell and choose Format > Table or Format > Table Cell.
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Right-click it and choose Cell... or Table... from the shortcut menu.
Note that in this case Table styles the table as a whole. When you choose Table and change
the border, for example, the borders of the cells inside it will not be changed.
To style all cells in a table or row at the same time via the Formatting dialog, you have to select
the table or row first; see "Selecting a table, row or cell" on the previous page. Next, to open the
Formatting dialog, choose Format > Table Cell. The settings that you make now will be
applied to all cells in the selected row or table.
For information about specific options in the formatting dialogs, see "Table Formatting dialog"
on page941 and "Table Cell Formatting dialog" on page945.
Via a style sheet
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) offer more ways to style a table and its contents, than the
Formatting dialog does. This is especially true for Detail Tables. With local formatting, all rows
that are added on the fly (in Preview mode and in output) will look exactly the same as the first
one. Alternating row colors, for example, in dynamically added rows can only be done via CSS.
How to do this is described below.
Another good reason to prefer style sheets over local formatting for Detail Tables, is that the
output from a Detail Table is created slightly faster when it's styled via Cascading Style Sheets
than when it's styled with local formatting.
How to use style sheets is explained in another topic; see "Styling templates with CSS files" on
page718.
Note that to make a style rule apply to a specific table, row or cell, you have to add an ID or
class to that table, row or cell.
Adding an ID or class to a table, row or cell
A style sheet contains a bunch of style rules for different elements, that are identified via a CSS
selector. This can be the element's HTML tag (without the angle brackets), ID or class.
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