LESSON 7
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Tables
5
When you’re finished, drag from the first heading cell to any body cell in the last
column to select the entire table.
6
Choose Edit > Cut.
7
Select Remove Cells from Table and click Cut. Save and close Tables1.fm.
Moving on
You’ve completed this lesson. For in-depth information about tables, see Chapter 6,
“Tables,” in the
Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 User Guide
.
Review questions
1
Where are table formats stored?
2
Name four components that make up a table in FrameMaker 7.0.
3
What two keyboard shortcuts let you move forward and backward between cells?
4
What’s the quickest way to insert an empty row below an insertion point?
5
How do you add a row or column?
6
How do you select a cell?
Answers
1
As with paragraph and character formats, table formats are stored in a catalog (the
Table Catalog
). The Table Catalog appears in a scroll list in the Insert Table dialog box.
2
FrameMaker 7.0 tables include such elements as a title, rows, columns, heading rows,
heading cells, body rows, body cells, rules, and shading.
3
To move forward one cell using the keyboard, press Tab. To move backward one cell
using the keyboard, press Shift+Tab.
4
To insert an empty row below the insertion point, press Return.
5
Click in a cell to set the insertion point. Choose Table > Add Rows or Columns. Specify
whether you want to add rows or columns, and how many. Then choose where you want
the rows or columns to be located in relation to the insertion point, and click Add.
6
To select a cell using the mouse, drag from inside the cell through the border of the next
cell and then back again to select just the one cell. You can also Control-click the cell
(Windows and UNIX) or Option-click it (Macintosh).