FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics

Tables and Text

It’s important to understand that, like anything else in a document, tables are not an entity unto themselves. Tables work in conjunction with many other FrameMaker functions, as you have probably experienced in your day-to-day tasks and read about in this chapter. This section takes you through some of the challenges presented in working with text in table cells. For this purpose, I focus on text behavior in cells and converting tables to and from text.

Text in Cells

You might have noticed that when you insert a new table, the text in the title, heading, and body cells is automatically formatted with a particular paragraph tag. Read through the section “Transparent Properties” on page 164 for a more in-depth explanation of ...