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Managing Schedule Table Styles
To create, edit, copy, or purge schedule table styles, you access the Style Manager. The Style Manager provides a central
location for working with styles from multiple drawings and templates. For more information, see “
Style Manager ” on
page 490.
Creating a Schedule Table Style
Use this procedure to create a schedule table style. You can either use the default style properties or copy an existing
style and then customize the properties. After creating the style, you can create a schedule table tool, and use the tool
to add the schedule to your drawing. For more information, see “
Adding Schedules Using Schedule Table Tools ” on
page 2027.
1 Click Format menu
➤
Style Manager.
The Style Manager is displayed with the current drawing expanded in the tree view.
2 Expand Documentation Objects, and expand Schedule Table Styles.
3 Create a new schedule table style:
Then… If you want to…
right-click Schedule Table Styles, and click New. create a style with default properties
right-click the schedule table style you want to copy, and
click Copy. Right-click, and click Paste. create a style from an existing style
4 Enter a name for the new style, and press
ENTER
.
5 Click the General tab, and enter a description.
6 Edit the options for the new schedule table style:
Then… If you want to…
see “ Specifying the Default Format of a Schedule Table Style ”
on page 2042 .
change the default format for the style
see “ Specifying Objects for a Schedule Table Style ” on page 2043 . specify the objects to be tracked in schedules using this
style
see “ Filtering Scheduled Objects by Classification in a Schedule
Table Style ” on page 2043 .
use classifications to filter the objects in a schedule
see “ Adding Columns to a Schedule ” on page 2044 . add columns for properties to be reported for tracked
objects
see “ Including a Formula Column in a Schedule Table ” on page
2046 .
add formula columns to display calculations
see “ Spanning Schedule Table Columns with a Heading ” on
page 2048 .
add headings that span columns
see “ Editing Columns in a Schedule Table ” on page 2048 . edit column placement settings and formats for column
data
see “ Specifying the Sort Order in a Schedule Table Style ” on page
2049 .
specify the sort order of rows
see “ Specifying Title Formats in a Schedule Table Style ” on page
2050 .
specify the formats of the table title, column headings,
and matrix column headings
see “ Specifying Display Properties in a Schedule Table Style ” on
page 2051 .
specify visibility, layer, linetype, and other display
properties
see “ Attaching Notes and Files to a Schedule Table Style ” on
page 2051 .
enter notes and attach, edit, or delete reference files
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