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Creating tables

Creating tables - QuarkXPress Tutorial

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Creating tables

- [Voiceover] In QuarkXPress tables are one of the four basic items, along with boxes, lines, and groups. There's a dedicated table tool, a menu of table commands, and a palette you can use to control the formatting of tables. And there are three ways to get tables into your QuarkXPress layouts. You can draw them, you can import them, or you can convert regular text into a table. And in this movie we'll take a look at drawing tables and converting text to tables. To draw a table we'll take the table tool from the tools palette and click and drag in the layout. As I drag I can see the dimensions of the table in the measurements palette, I can hold the Shift key to constrain it to be a perfect square, and when I release I get a dialog box to set the table properties. Here I can choose the number of rows and columns, as well as the default cell type. And no matter what you choose here you can select specific cells in your table and convert them to either picture cells or text cells later…

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