User Guide

Introduction

You have created your web and started your home page by adding and formatting some text.

In addition to text, there are many things you can add to your pages. We’ll start with tables.

Tables will make your life a little easier because of the control they offer. In general, tables are

used to position web elements or contain data. By using tables properly, you can present your

web’s contents in the best possible light and help ensure that your web’s visitors are viewing

the content as you intended it to be displayed.

TOPIC A

Inserting a Table

Inserting a table is the ﬁrst step to organizing content on a page. With a table in place, content

such as text and pictures, can be added and arranged however you want it.

In the past, you didn’t have much control where elements appeared on a web page. Things are

added from left to right and top to bottom, but you couldn’t easily position items where you

wanted. That’s where tables came in. Tables are nothing more than containers. You can put any

web element in them—text, pictures, or even other tables—controlling where items are posi-

tioned and how they are displayed. And although there are now other methods for positioning

page elements, tables still give you the most reliable results in a wider variety of browsers.

Insert a Table

Procedure

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Tables are a conglomeration of containers called cells, which are grouped hori-

zontally as rows and vertically as columns. Each cell can contain a different

element and have different formatting. Before you can use tables to display and

control web elements though, you must ﬁrst add one to a page. To do that:

Place the insertion point where the table is to be located.

Then to insert a table, you have a couple different options: draw one

manually or have FrontPage do it for you. To draw a table, do the

following.

• Choose Table→Draw Table, and then drag the Draw Table tool to

ﬁrst create the table’s outer border. Then draw vertical lines in the

table border to create columns and horizontally to create rows.

To have FrontPage create a table for you:

• On the Standard toolbar, click the Insert Table button and select the

number of rows and columns, or look for more table options.

• Choose Table→Insert→Table. Not only can you select the number of

rows and columns, but you can also make layout decisions, like set-

ting the new table’s alignment and size.

LESSON 2

FrontPage 2002 – Level 1

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