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We're now going to look at adding field data to tables in AutoCAD. Now, we have touched on this already so what we're going to do is we're going to make this quite brief. But basically we're going to add field data for these blocks here, our furniture blocks in our living area to a table in AutoCAD. So we go to our Annotate Tab in the ribbon, we make sure in our Tables Panel here that we're using the room area square meters table style and then we click on Table. We start from an empty table, we specify the insertion points. I need two columns with column width of 200, four data rows with the row height of one line each. As you can see, the preview there shows that we've got title header data as our cell styles. So I click on OK to insert the table. There's the table there in the drawing. I left click and that places the table. Now, it automatically goes into the Text Editor there. I'm going to close the Text Editor and what I'm going to do is extend my table by selecting it, clicking on the arrow and dragging to the right to make those columns wider to fit the text in. I then hit Escape to deselect. I'm going to double click now in the Title here and it's going to Furn. and then Blocks because they're furniture blocks. Using the arrow keys now I'm going to put the name of the piece of furniture there and then tab across and then put block in the header there for the block name. If I tab again now I'm back in the next cell down so I'm going to type three-seat sofa as our first name. We use the Down Arrow Key to go to sideboard is the next cell down. Then we've got our entertainment center. Just abbreviate it in this case so it fits in the cell and then lamp like so. I can toggle now using the arrow keys back up to this cell here. So I now click on Field and I'm going to go to a Field Category of objects, select Object in the field names and click on the Select Object Button. I'm then going to select my three-seat sofa here, select Name and there's Sofa, Three-Seater. I want it in uppercase and I ok it. Now, what you'll notice there is that the actual table seems to have disappeared. It hasn't. If I click on Close here and close the Text Editor it comes back. Sometimes AutoCAD takes a little bit of time to catch up with the graphic card or vice-versa so I double click in this cell here now. Again, Field, click on the Select Object Button and select the sideboard here, click on name and there's Sideboard there. I OK it, it puts Sideboard in the cell. If I go to the next cell down now, I want the entertainment center now so I click on Field, again at the Select Objects Prompt here, click on the Select Object Button and I select the entertainment center, I select Name and there's Multi-Media Center there, click on OK and again, if I just close the Text Editor there you can see that it brings the table back. I just need to move that table up slightly. So I click on that grip there and just move it up a little bit just so it doesn't clash with those blocks there. I hit Escape, double click in the last cell here and again, Field, Object, Select Objects, click on the lamp itself, click on the name there. It's a Standard Lamp, I click on OK, it puts Standard Lamp in the actual cell there for me, click on Close, close the Text Editor and there's our table there. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to move that table up a little bit more just so we're not clashing with the box. I'm also going to move it to the left over here and I'm going to extend it a little bit further just to make everything fit. If I hit Escape now you can see that everything fits just. But what I can do, I can select the table, I can right click, size rows equally and it tidies it all up for me. If I zoom out a little bit, click on the Move there, drag it up this way, hit Escape. You can see that's a much neater and tidier table. So as you can see there with that table, we've utilized the field data to put our block names in our table.