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With local formatting. This means styling the table directly, using the Formatting dialog.
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Via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In a style sheet, style rules are declared for
elements with different HTML tags, ID's and classes.
These two methods are described below. See "Styling and formatting" on page488 for
background information about these two methods.
Selecting a table, row or cell
There are several ways to select a table or row:
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Click in the table or row. Then, in the breadcrumbs (see "Selecting an element" on
page411) click table to select the table, or tr to select the row.
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Right-click a cell and from the shortcut menu, choose Table > Select or Row > Select.
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Click in a cell and then use the toolbar: click the Select Table button or click the black
triangle next to that button and then click Select Table or Select Row.
Selecting one cell is easy: just click in it.
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Use the Styles pane to see which styles apply to the currently selected table, row or cell.
Via the Formatting dialog
The Formatting dialog allows you to change the font, font size and color (see "Fonts" on
page518), the borders (see "Border" on page512), the cell padding (the distance between the
edge of the cell and its content, see "Spacing" on page521), and the background color or
image of the table and its cells ("Background color and/or image" on page510).
To open the Formatting dialog for one cell or for the table as a whole:
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Click in a cell and choose Format > Table or Format > Table Cell.
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Right-click it and choose Cell... or Table... from the shortcut menu.
Note that in this case Table styles the table as a whole. When you choose Table and change
the border, for example, the borders of the cells inside it will not be changed.
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