2018

BOXES, LINES, AND TABLES
130 | A Guide to QuarkXPress 2018
Choose Table > Table Break. The Table Break Options dialog box displays.•
To set the number of header and footer rows, enter values in the Header
Rows and Footer Rows fields, respectively.
Table Break Properties dialog box for anchored table
To create a secondary header that displays in portions of a table after the first,
check Continued Header. For example, if the header on the first portion of the
table is “List of Contributors,” the continued header might be “List of
Contributors (continued).” Click First Header Row to limit the continued
header to the first header row, or All Header Rows to create continued headers
from all header rows.
When you’re finished, click OK.
To set a continued header or footer’s contents, go to a portion of the table after
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the first and change the header contents there.
You can uncheck Repeat as Header or Repeat as Footer in the Table menu any
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time to remove the header or footer rows from continued tables.
Once you add automatic header rows and footer rows, the remaining table rows are
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considered “body rows.” Options in the Select submenu of the Table menu let you
select all the Header Rows, Footer Rows, and Body Rows in any instance of a
continued table for formatting.
Table Import
You can import a table into QuarkXPress using a Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) file as the
data source, and you can update that same QuarkXPress table when the data
changes in the Excel file. You can also import and update charts and pictures from
Microsoft Excel and tables from MS Word.
The Table Import functionality provides the following user interface elements: