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Changing cell formatting and layout

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Changing cell formatting and layout

Once you have inserted a table into one of your publications, it's time to manipulate that table, to customize it to suit your needs, and that's what we're going to do with our TTCalendar publication that we've been working with. You'll notice, after the preset was chosen, we ended up with a different color for the top row, then the following rows alternate in shading. And you can see its equal columns and equal row heights that have been created for us from the preset, but we can change all of that. We're going to start with formatting some of our cells, starting at the top row. Really, what's going to go up here is not seven different things, but rather a title, such as the month and year. So we'll just click and drag from cell one all the way across to the last cell in the row, to highlight them or select them. Now we can make some changes to those cells, like, for example, merge them all together into a single cell. Notice Table tools does appear over a couple of tabs, Design and…

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