Operation Manual

52 Working with Text
About table text
Tables are ideal for presenting text and data in a variety of easily
customizable row-and-column formats, with built-in spreadsheet
capabilities. Each cell in a table behaves like a mini-frame. As with
frame text, you can alter table text’s character and paragraph
formatting, apply text styles, and attach hyperlinks. However, you can’t
use WritePlus to edit table text or import text from a file.
Tables have a number of unique features (detailed in online help) like
AutoFormat, QuickClear, and QuickFill for rapid editing and revision.
To create a table, choose
Insert Table from the Tools toolbar and
click on the page or pasteboard, or drag to set the table’s dimensions.
The Create Table dialog appears with a selection of preset layouts. You
can either select a preset or choose Default to start with a plain table,
then click OK.
Once you’ve created a table, you can select, move, resize, delete, and
copy it as an object, just as you would with a text frame. Other
operations involve selecting text within the table, or parts of the table.
Within each cell, you can click for an insertion point or drag to select a
range of text. You can also drag to select multiple cells, rows, or
columns, which in effect selects all the text in that region. Once you’ve
made a selection, you can edit text in the table and modify the structure
and appearance of the table and/or its components.
Scheme colors and text
To round out this chapter, a brief reprise on the subject of scheme
colors. When we introduced the Studio’s Schemes tab in Chapter 2, we
mentioned that “Scheme Color 1” (as displayed in the Attributes tab’s
Color gallery, and elsewhere) is conventionally applied to text in
WebPlus template sites. This isn’t a hard and fast rule—you can apply
any color you like to any kind of text.