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Tables / Modification pt. 3
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In this movie, let's talk about using a preset table format. Now a preset format is just like a custom design or a custom template and it applies this great look or this good formatting to your table. It's already done for you, you don't have to mess with the formatting which is awesome. Alright let's go up and grab this table, take some of that out of there, let's highlight it, let's go up to Table, and Format Table. You can see right here we've got all kinds of different options. Nice that they're pre-made and put together. Saves you a lot of time from having to do all that. Notice on the Advanced Tab we can select a border width, how we want the text to be aligned, text style, I'm going to do bold on mine, and here we can actually change some of the specifics of that design. The background color, the text color, let's do a blue color, text alignment style row color, and right now we're alternating every other row with this row color, but we could make it a little bit different, every two rows. And let's click OK. And there we go, we have our table, and again we could put this information in there. And I just hit my Tab and it keeps adding rows for me. And of course, if you decide later on, you want to change that, just go back to your Format, and you change it easily. Now another thing I can do is sort data, I can have it sort things alphabetically, I can have it sort things numerically. So right now I have all these numbers in here, let's put some names. And let's click in the name column. Let's go up to Table, and let's Sort the Table. We'll look at our table here, we want to sort by column one two or three? Let's go with column two for the name, let's do it alphabetically, and we'll do it ascending order, which means A to Z, descending would be Z to A. You can also do a Then By, and do a secondary column if you want to. Now do we include the first row, we don't want to do that, do we want to sort the header row, no, footer, or keep row colors with the content. And you may have certain rows that you've colored a certain way, so that way those things stand out, so you might want to do that. Let's apply this, and look this is now in alphabetical order, but you'll notice we're not in numerical order. So let's see if we can make it flip, let's use column one, we'll make it do numerically, and we'll do descending. Ascending is one to ten, descending is ten to one. Apply that and it's in descending order. Anytime you have to put tabular data in there, just let the computer sort it for you. It's so easy, so simple to use, it saves you a lot of time. So go look at some of those preset formats that are available for your table. Throw some text in there, throw some numbers, and see if you can work with that sorting option.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Contribute CS5 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34192 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-73-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 133 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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