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Understanding tables - iBooks Author Tutorial
From the course: iBooks Author Essential Training
Understanding tables
- To display tabular data in your iBook, you only need to follow three simple steps. Step One: Create your table. Step Two: Enter or import your data, and then Step Three: Format your table and your data to match your book's layout in iBooks Author. Now, I do want to emphasize that tables in iBooks Author are only meant for displaying tabular data. It's not meant to be a replacement for your favorite spreadsheet program, such as Numbers or Excel. Now with that said, you are able to create formulas and set up a limited amount of conditional formatting based on the data contained within your table. And, your tables in iBooks Author can contain text or numbers. Let me show you what I mean. In this table, we have all of the different tour packages available within our Backpack California series. And in the first column, under Difficulty, we have text describing the tours as being either easy, moderate, or hard. And each cell is colored based on the level of difficulty. Now, if we go into…
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Understanding tables2m 22s
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Creating tables2m 9s
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Adding and importing data into tables3m 3s
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Formatting table cells and data8m 37s
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Performing calculations3m 57s
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Using conditional formatting2m 52s
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Sorting table data1m 15s
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Adding a custom table description1m 42s
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