Would like to know if someone knows how to insert tables for organizing information on pages being created?
Would like to know if someone knows how to insert tables for organizing information on pages being created?
Hi mlk0125,
please have a look at this thread (http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=37021) and especially Gary's link in post 3 for a tutorial.
Regards, Albert
Please note that there are alternative ways to handle table creation.
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Alternative method for table creation:
Simple.
- Create a cell (a rectangle) of whatever size and formatting. Insert a text string placeholder.
- Format for alignment.
- Group parent cell/rectangle with child text.
- Duplicate as required, using object corner snapping (depending on your data requirements).
- Group rows and/or columns, as required.
- Edit strings as required.
- Elongate/shorten parent cells/rectangles, as required.
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How does this relate to WD, in simple Xara WD language.
Perhaps you could attach a sample .web file
The attached .web file contains a page with a table that I mocked up using a spreadsheet program called CALC from Open Office.org. Seems to work quite well.
Randy
Erm... I hardly dare push my luck on a thread focused on tech ways to insert tables into XWD, but there is a very low tech way of achieving the same graphic effect. Simply take a .png snag (Snagit 9.0) of the spreadsheet and import it as a graphic. Then set it to repel text under and postion exactly as required using guides. Changes to the original table can then be snagged and positioned exactly as the original.
I use a workaround everytime instead of sweating a problem if it achieves the same effect.
OK, I'll shut up .....
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