Chapter 12

Making Tables

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Using the Table tool

check Importing Excel tables and charts

check Adding text and pictures to tables

check Formatting tables

check Breaking tables across pages

check Adding header and footer rows

check Converting a table back to text

A table in QuarkXPress is a collection of boxes that make up a new kind of item — a table! The boxes (cells) behave like regular text, picture, or no-content boxes; you control the table’s attributes with either the Table menu, the Table tab in the Modify dialog box (Windows), or the Home/Classic or Table tab of the Measurements palette (Mac).

In this chapter, you learn to create, edit, and format tables. Some tables are so long that they need to break across pages, so you find out how to set them to automatically break, as well as how to add header ...

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