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Chapter 11: Tables

Understanding tables

Designing with tables

In addition to displaying information in rows and columns, you can design tables to create visually rich page layouts.

You can lay out text and many kinds of objects—including images, nested tables, Photoshop files, and QuickTime

movies—within a table.

Positioning text and objects using tables is even easier if you use a GoLive layout grid with layout text boxes.

See also

“About layout grids” on page 247

GoLive table features

The table features in Adobe GoLive make it easy to lay out entire web pages or organize information in rows and

columns. You can instantly generate a table in GoLive by using a table you’ve copied in a different application,

including Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, and third-party word-processing or spreadsheet applications, such

as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.

Format tables with the Table Inspector (left); select table cells and apply table styles with the Table & Boxes palette (right).

To build tables manually, you use the Table icon in the objects toolbox and set table properties in the Table Inspector.

You can quickly format tables with the predefined table styles in the Table Style tab of the Table & Boxes palette. The

Select tab of the Table & Boxes palette lets you select a group of cells or nested tables with greater ease than in the

document window. In addition, the Select tab identifies table size conflicts and enables you to fix them with one click.

Use the Smart Photoshop object to automatically create a table that contains optimized slices of a sliced Photoshop

image.