Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Cool Numbers Tips / Redefine a Style
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Alright a couple of tips here about working with the styles in your tables. Now we've got this blank sheet and I'm going to get started by adding a new table and just add a basic table here and this is what it looks like if I look in my styles pane I can see a little arrow next to the currently applied style. So bright blue is the currently applied style and this is what it looks like. So if we want to start to manipulate that a little bit, of course we know the techniques now. If I want to select the entire table I can choose the inspector and maybe I want to make my cell borders stand out a little bit more with eggplant and certainly they stand out now and maybe I want to make this header row a little bit different with the different color fills. So again not trying to be to fantastic with the colors or match, not trying to make it look pretty here by any stretch and I succeeded. So now I have a table that looks like this and it's a variation on that bright blue style. Now I can always go back by selecting the table and I can clear what I've done and apply the style and it goes back, kind of resets. Going to undo that. Another option I have is if I like the table, if I got a table just the way I want it, I can go back and I can create a new style. So if I select that one, now I give the table a style name, or I give the table style a name and I'll just choose Brian here, that's fine, click on OK and now I've got one called Brian. So let's see what happens if I make this table go away and let's put a new table in there and again it will look like this, it looks like a bright blue table. But what happens if I select it and then I choose the Brian style, it looks like that, apply that style. So that's a way that you can prevent yourself from having to reinvent the wheel each time you deal with a new table once you've got a table formatted just the way you want to. Now, I recommend that you don't, you have other options by the way. Let me select again and choose this. You can rename and delete styles and also redefine a style. So if you made adjustments to bright blue or if you've done this and you want a different color for the color fill, let's choose yellow instead. So now we can redefine that style. Ok, so now once more if get rid of this table and then add a new table and then go in with the table selected and I apply that Brian style, there we go, there's the yellow header field. So keep that in mind when your dealing with your tables and you won't have quite as much work to do if you've got a company color scheme that is column applied for example to a lot of the tables that you deal with.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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