Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 163)

Creating Documents Book Tools 143
Create a table with pre-existing text
You can create a table with two kinds of pre-existing “tab-delimited” text that may be on your
Clipboard (copied from another application), or text that may be in your document.
1. Click where you want the table to appear and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
2. Select the text you want to have appear in table form and choose Convert to Table from the
Table menu.
Enter graphics in a table
▶ Click your insertion point in the field in which you wish to have your graphic appear and paste
your graphic.
Many graphics can appear in one cell.
Table 6
A table with graphics
Navigate among the cells of a table
When you edit text inside a table cell, you can use the keyboard to move your insertion point
• The , and . keys move the insertion point into the cells on the left and right respectively.
• The ˜ and - arrow keys move the insertion point into the cells above and below respectively
• Press @ to move the insertion point into the next cell.
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If you are in the last cell of a table pressing @ inserts a new row.
• Press 1 @ to move the insertion point to the preceding cell.
Select cells, or portions of… or the entire table
You can select portions of your table using the mouse or the keyboard.
• Using the mouse
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and drag to select additional cells.
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and choose Cells from the Select submenu of the
Table menu.
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If you have noncontiguous selections in more than one cell, this selects all cells in which you have
selections. (To select text noncontiguously press
A as you select additional text.)
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and choose Columns from the Select submenu of
the Table menu.
This selects all cells contiguous with the one in which your insertion point appears, even if
they are merged with other columns.
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and choose Rows from the Select submenu of the
Table menu.
This selects all cells contiguous with the one in which your insertion point appears, even if
they are merged with other rows.
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and choose Table from the Select submenu of the
Table menu.
This selects all the cells of the table.
• Using the keyboard
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and type A a (lowercase “a”).
This selects the entire contents of the cell.
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and type A 1 A .
This selects all cells contiguous with the one in which your insertion point appears, even if
they are merged with other columns.
▶ Click your insertion point inside any cell and type A 4 a .
Table
Alignment
Table Palette Buttons
left center right