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Tutorial C2-4-1_Customizing Tables for Size and Position

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Customizing tables


Objective: Customize the tables in the four pages you created and add content.

 

You will be customizing the tables you created on your new Wiki pages and adding content on them: the personal bio page (About Me) , the participants' bios page, the page for favorite links, and the page for teaching resources/materials.


 

Earlier you learned how to install tables on your wiki site. Then you installed them on four different pages. Now it's time to find out how to make the tables work for you and the way you want your content to appear, and to be organized. Let's get started.

 

The tables you installed on your four pages should look like this:

 

   
   

 

 

 

 

Task 1: Customizing tables with Table Properties 

 

1. Table creation is done through the Toolbar menu, but the main access to table control is not in the Toolbar -- it's in clicking the right-hand mouse button (here we'll call this the 'right-click') with the cursor inside the table. Here's what you'll see when you do this.

 

1. 'Paste' will place previously copied material inside the selected cell.

2. 'Table properties' provides options for controlling size, location, and appearance of the overall table.

3. Don't select this unless you really mean it.

4. 'Cell' provides options for controlling size and appearance of the selected cell.

5. 'Row' provides options for controlling width and appearance of the selected row, as well as an option for adding a row above or below the selected row, and deleting the selected row. (If you choose the last one, the content of that row will also disappear.)

6. 'Column' provides options for controlling width and appearance of the selected column, as well as an option for adding a column to the left or the right of the selected column, and deleting the selected column. If you're choosing the last option, see #3 first. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The table you created in Step 1 is really wide, but you can do something about it. To adjust width: right-click, select 'Table Properties' from the drop-down menu; choose width in numeric percentage value or pixel value. This table is 90%:

 

   
   

 

 

 

 

2. You can change the position of the table. To align table on the page: right-click, select 'Table Properties' from the drop-down menu; choose Left, Center, or Right from the Align box. We'll center this table.

 

   
   

 

 

 

 

3. Now choose one of the four table cells and type a long sentence into it. Notice what happens --> 

 

This is one long endless sentence that never ends and goes on and on and on perpetually without ever stopping..... Where's the cell border???--->   
   

 

 

 

 

 

4. If you'd like to keep this from happening to your table, you'll need to fix a cell width. You only need to do it once, for one cell. To do that, right-click and choose 'Cell' and 'Table cell properties' from the drop-down menu. Then choose the desired width, being careful to recognize the difference between 'percentage' and 'pixels':

 

1. In this case, I've selected 50% for the cell width. That means that all the other cells will default to 50%, and I don't need to change any others. 3. And here's a demonstration of what happens to the entire column when only one cell is fixed to 50%. The entire two-column table has to play the game. 
2. Here's a demonstration of what happens to text when the cell property doesn't have a fixed width, but is in a table with one fixed-width cell.  4. It's different when you have more than two columns, of course. If you fix only one cell, the other two will fight each other for the remaining space. But you only need to fix the space for one cell in each column.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For additional help click on the link to Tablesincluding instructions for Adding a table, Adding/deleting rows or columns, row and column sizing, setting background colors, deleting a table 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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