How do you insert tables on webpages?

[mlk0125]

Would like to know if someone knows how to insert tables for organizing information on pages being created?

[akubbeng]

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

[cursor]

Please note that there are alternative ways to handle table creation.

[steve.ledger]

Please demonstrate

[cursor]

Alternative method for table creation:

• 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.

Simple.

[steve.ledger]

How does this relate to WD, in simple Xara WD language.
Perhaps you could attach a sample .web file

[Trial n' Terror]

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

[steve.ledger]

Very good method, good tip.

[gbpatriot]

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 .....

[Xhris]

Would like to know if someone knows how to insert tables for organizing information on pages being created?

There's a video here explaining how to do it in WD.