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CHAPTER 8
Working with Tables
A table is a powerful tool for presenting tabular data. For example, you might add a table to a
web page that lists all your sales reps in one column, with their contact information in another
column.
In Macromedia Contribute, you can add text and images to table cells the same way that you add
text and images to a page (see “Working with Text” on page 73 and “Working with Images and
Graphical Elements” on page 91). After you create a table you can easily modify both its
appearance and structure.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “About conflicts in table formatting” on page 111
• “Inserting a table on a page” on page 112
• “Selecting table elements” on page 113
• “Resizing tables, rows, and columns” on page 115
• “Aligning tables” on page 116
• “Cutting and copying table cells” on page 117
• “Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns” on page 119
• “Modifying table appearance” on page 121
• “Sorting tabular data” on page 126
About conflicts in table formatting
When formatting tables, you can set properties for the entire table or for selected cells, rows, or
columns in the table.
When a table property, such as background color or alignment, is set to one value for the entire
table and another value for individual cells, cell formatting takes precedence over row formatting,
which in turn takes precedence over table formatting.
The order of precedence for table formatting is as follows:
1. Cells
2. Rows
3. Table