Operation Manual

520 | CorelDRAW X8 User Guide
In this example, a table was used to organize the content.
To add a table to a drawing
1
Click the Table tool .
2 Type values in the Rows and columns boxes on the property bar.
The value that you type in the top portion specifies the number of rows; the value that you type in the bottom portion specifies the
number of columns.
3 Drag diagonally to draw the table.
You can also create a table by clicking Table Create new table, and then typing values in the Number of rows, Number of
columns, Height, and Width boxes.
To create a table from text
1
Click the Pick tool .
2 Select the text that you want to convert to a table.
3
Click Table Convert text to table.
4 In the Create columns based on the following separator area, choose one of the following options:
• Commas — creates a column where a comma appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears
• Tabs — creates a column where a tab appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears
• Paragraphs — creates a column where a paragraph marker appears
• User defined — creates a column where a specified marker appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears
If you enable the User defined option, you must type a character in the User defined box.
If you do not type a character in the User defined box, only one column is created, and each paragraph of text creates a table row.
You can also convert a table to text. For more information, see “To convert a table to text” on page 529.