Standard Tables in Dreamweaver



	Creating Tables in Standard View
	Using Layout View is useful when you are creating tables freehand and need lots of flexibility. But to create simple tables with a more structured view then using the Standard View is faster. To switch to Standard View go to the Layout tab on the Insert panel and select Standard View. 1. Open a new document and save it as biking_table in your lesson4 folder. Title the page Montana Mountain Biking. 2. Open the mt_biking.txt file and turn on Word Wrap if necessary. Copy the Montana Mountain Biking header and the first paragraph. Paste this text into your page and change the header to H3 style. 3. Place the cursor at the end of the document and press enter to create another paragraph. From the menu bar select Insert > Table or go to the Layout tab on the Insert panel and click on the table icon at the left of the tab heading. Make your table with 2 rows and 4 columns. Change width to 500 pixels. Set the border to 1. Leave cell padding and spacing blank. NOTE: Use pixels for width when for precise layout of text and images. Use percentage when the proportions of the columns are more important than the actual widths. 4. Type in the following headings in the first row: Ride Name, Type, Location, Rating Importing Data from Spreadsheets 1. From the menu bar select Insert > Table Objects and then click Import Tabular Data. There is also a Tabular Data button on the Common tab of the Insert panel. 2. Click browse and navigate to the bikingtable.txt file in the lesson04 folder then double-click it. In the Import Tabular Data dialog box set the Delimiter to Tab and click the Set option under Table Width and enter 500 and be sure the units are pixels. Make sure (No Formatting) is selected in the Format Top Row box and that 1 is in the Border Box. Click OK. You now have two tables, the first one has the rows and headers and the second one has the data. Copying and Pasting Table Cells - Working with Cells and Cell Content 1. Select all of the cells in the second table by dragging over the cells. How can you tell the cells are selected? To be cut or copied the cells selected must form a rectangle. 2. Press Ctrl + C to copy the cells. Click in the first cell of the second row of the first table just below Ride Name and then press Ctrl + V to paste the cells. 3. Save this page. Next: Selecting Table Elements

Creating Tables in Standard View

Using Layout View is useful when you are creating tables freehand and need lots of flexibility. But to create simple tables with a more structured view then using the Standard View is faster. To switch to Standard View go to the Layout tab on the Insert panel and select Standard View.