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Insert and Adjust a Table within Application Text

Follow these steps to include tabular information in your application.

Written by Laura Berwick
Updated over a week ago

This article covers the following topics:

  • Add a Table to Your Description or Claims

  • Add Rows

  • Add Columns

  • Remove Rows

  • Remove Columns

  • Merge Cells

  • Split Cells

  • Adjust Table and Column Widths

Add a Table to Your Description or Claims

  1. Place your cursor at the point in your text where you wish to insert your table.

  2. Click the table icon in the toolbar.


  3. Drag your cursor to select the desired number of rows and columns



    OR


    Click More Options... to enter your desired table dimensions using your keyboard.


    Learn more about the Generate Table Content option here.

  4. Your table will be inserted at your cursor location.

  5. Click into your table to add text and to access adjustment controls (specific actions are described below).


  6. Use the Insert new line controls to continue drafting around your table.

  7. Insert a Table label and/or apply the Caption style to caption your table if you wish.

Add Rows

  1. Click to place your cursor in a cell of one of the existing rows.

  2. Click the Insert Row icon to add a row above the current row


    OR


    Click the Insert Row dropdown to select either the Insert Row Below or Insert Row Above option.

  3. A new row matching your current row will be added above or below your current row based on your selection.

Add Columns

  1. Click to place your cursor in a cell of one of the existing columns.

  2. Click the Insert Column icon to add a column to the left of the current column


    OR


    Click the Insert Column dropdown to select either the Insert Column Right or Insert Column Left option.

  3. A new column matching your current column will be added to the left or right of your current column based on your selection.

Remove Rows

  1. Click to place your cursor in a cell of the row you want to delete


    OR


    Click and drag to select multiple cells/rows

  2. Click the Remove icon.

  3. Select the Remove Row option to delete your current selected row(s).

Remove Columns

  1. Click to place your cursor in a cell of the column you want to delete


    OR


    Click and drag to select multiple cells/columns.

  2. Click the Remove icon.

  3. Select the Remove Column option to delete your current selected column(s).

Merge Cells

  1. Click to place your cursor into the cell you want to merge with its neighbor.

  2. Click the Merge and Split Cells icon.

  3. Select the desired Merge Cell option (Right, Left, Up, and Down) to select the desired neighboring cell and merge the two together.


    Note that merging is an individual cell action and these options are not provided when multiple cells are selected.


Split Cells

  1. Click to place your cursor into the cell you want to split.

  2. Click the Merge and Split Cells icon.

  3. Select the desired Split Cell option (Vertically or Horizontally) to create two cells from the selected cell.

    Note that splitting is an individual cell action and these options are not provided when multiple cells are selected.

Adjust Table and Column Widths

  1. Click to place your cursor in the desired table.

  2. Click the Table Properties icon.

  3. Use the Width (%) field and arrows to type or increase/decrease your table width to the desired percent of the available page width.

  4. Click and drag a column boundary to adjust the width of the associated columns.

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