Editing Table Styles and Creating Tables

Tables are like having Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet program within AutoCAD. The overall appearance of tables is controlled by table styles. Cell spacing, borders, and background coloring is controlled by individual table cells. In the following steps, you will adjust a table style, create a new table, and begin adding content to its cells.

  1. If the file is not already open, go to the book's web page, browse to Chapter 15, get the file Ch15-C.dwg or Ch15-C-metric.dwg, and open it.
  2. images Expand the Annotation panel and click the Table Style icon. Click the Modify button in the Table Style dialog box that ...

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