Design tables in Word

The table assistant creates perfectly designed tables in your company’s corporate design. When you import or update tables from Excel, firesys automatically creates the same design and layout.

The function

The table assistant is your personal assistant for creating new, blank tables and for changing existing tables to suit the defined layout. If the cursor is positioned...

• in text, you can create a new table with the assistant.
• in a table, you can edit it.

Clicking on the icon in the menu ribbon opens the table assistant with which you can create a new, blank table or change existing tables in accordance with your style guidelines Working with the table assistant is explained in more detail in the article on the table assistant.

The menu ribbon

	Good to know
	Tables you import and update with linktables are usually automatically formatted and designed. If a table is not to be automatically adjusted, you can specify this in the Excel Data Manager (see “The Excel data manager”).

Layout

Table assistant

Opens the table assistant with which you can create a new, blank table ① or change existing tables in accordance with your style guidelines.

Rows

This function contains advanced formatting functions for individual design of the currently selected table row.

Table header

Use the menu sub-items to assign defined formats to the rows in the table header (e.g. first, middle, last).

Table body

Use the menu sub-items to assign defined formats to the rows in the table body (e.g. standard, subtotal, total).

Borders

Above

Use the menu sub-items to format the line above the row where the cursor is positioned.

Below

Use the menu sub-items to format the line below the row where the cursor is positioned.

Left

Use the menu sub-items to format the left-hand border of the cell where the cursor is positioned.

Right

Use the menu sub-items to format the right-hand border of the cell where the cursor is positioned.

Background

Use the menu sub-items to apply or remove background highlighting on cells you have selected.

	Good to know
	The manual formatting that you perform here may be reset if you update tables and the “Transfer format information from Excel” setting is selected.

Highlight on/off

Applies or removes background highlighting to and from individual columns.

Cell info

Displays the format settings for the cell where the cursor is pointed.

Customised layout

Scale

Shrinks or stretches the selected table or restores the default. You can adjust the font size, the line spacing and the spacing before and after each paragraph.
Note: Resizing tables only changes the font size, spacing before, spacing after and line spacing. All other formatting options that influence the row height (e.g. minimum row height) are not taken into account.

/ / shrink/stretch/reset

Shrinks or stretches the selected table or restores the standard setting. Here you can select the line spacing, space before and space after.

/ Insert or delete rows and columns

Inserts or deletes rows or columns to the left/right, above/below the cursor position.

/ / Delete tables, columns and rows

Deletes the selected table, column or row from the document.

Format tables using the context-sensitive menu

→ Go to the main article on formatting tables with the context-sensitive menu

Besides the table assistant, the context-sensitive “Tables” tab also offers numerous preset options for designing individual rows which have been specially tailored to your publication’s layout.

The table assistant

→ Go to the main article on the table assistant

The firesys table assistant is a tool with which you can insert tables from Excel into your Word document according to your requirements.

See also

Design content in Word
The typography functions in Word
The firesys layout functions
Format texts in Word
The Premium Layout

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