Operation Manual

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2 Click a cell.
3 Type text in the cell.
You can select text in a cell by pressing Ctrl + A.
To change the properties of text in table cells
1
Using the Table tool , click a table.
2 Hold down Ctrl, and click the table cells that contain text to be formatted.
3
Click Text Text properties, and specify the settings you want in the Text properties docker.
For more information about formatting text, see “Formatting text” on page 397.
To change the text properties for an entire row, column, or table simultaneously, you must first select the table component or table.
For more information, see “To select a table, row, or column” on page 505.
To insert a tab stop in a table cell
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With the Table tool pointer inserted in a cell, click Text Insert formatting code Tab.
Another way to insert a tab stop is by pressing the Tab key. To use this method, you must set the Tab key to insert tab stops. For
information about changing the Tab key options, see “To change the navigational direction of the Tab key” on page 506.
To automatically resize table cells when you type
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Click the Pick tool , and then click the table.
2 Click Options on the property bar, and enable the Automatically resize cells while typing check box.
This option can be applied to new tables that do not yet have text or other content.
If a table already contains text, only cells to which new text is added will be resized.
Converting tables to text
If you no longer want table text to appear in a table, you can convert the table text to paragraph text. For more information about
converting text to a table, see “To create a table from text” on page 504.
To convert a table to text
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Click the Table tool , and then click the table.
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Click Table Convert table to text.
3 In the Separate cell text with area, choose one of the following options:
• Commas — replaces each column with a comma and replaces each row with a paragraph marker
• Tabs — replaces each column with a tab and replaces each row with a paragraph marker
• Paragraphs — replaces each column with a paragraph marker
• User defined — replaces each column with a specified character and replaces each row with a paragraph marker
If you enable the User defined option, you must type a character in the User defined box.