Guide for using Table Setter

Guide for using Table Setter

  1. To open the table setter option, click on ‘Preview’ option on the table. (or) 
  2. Click on specific table which thereby opens ‘Table’ option and choose ‘Table setter’ 

 

  1. The screenshot below depicts the view after opening the table setter. 

  

 

1. How to adjust the table layout? 

  1. Choose the layout options on the left to format the table into a specific layout. 
  2. The preview of the table will be displayed in the right tab.
                ‘Double’ 

 

‘Landscape’ 

 

2. How to equally adjust the column distribution? 

  1. To adjust the column distribution, press shift and select the columns that you want to adjust. 

 

  1. Click ‘Equal adjust’ to adjust the column. 

 

  1. Click ‘Discard changes’ to revert the changes you made. 

 

3. How to modify the grid options? 

  1. To turn on or off the grid options, adjust the toggle placed near the table/page grid option. 

 

  1. The grids will disappear once you turn off the option. 

 

 

4. How to change the font size of the text in the table?  

  1. Adjust the font size by changing the values of font in the left toolbar. 

 

 

Note: The maximum font size is set to 9 points by default. 

5. How to change the alignment of the contents in the table? 

  1. To align the contents in the table horizontally and vertically, select the specific columns. 
  2. Click any of the below options horizontal (left, center, right, justify) and vertical (top, center and bottom) 

 

  1. The screenshot below depicts the view after center aligning the elements. 

 

  1. To align the contents by character, select the specific columns. 
  1. Click any of the following options- dot, hyphen, parenthesis, comma, plus, minus, plus or minus, Emdash and Endash 

 

  1. The screenshot below depicts the view after aligning the elements in the table by dot. 

 

6. How to increase/decrease the indent? 

  1. Click shift and select multiple columns. 
  2. Click the options below to increase/decrease the indentation. 

 

‘Before adjusting the indentation’ 

 

 

‘After adjusting the indentation’ 

 

 

7. How to add/remove the borders to a table? 

  1. To add borders to a table, select the specific columns and click ‘Borders’ option.   
  2. Select any of the following options- left, right, top, bottom and all. 

 

  1. The below screenshot depicts the view after adding using ‘All’ option in borders. 

 

  1. To remove the borders, select the specific columns and click ‘Clear’ in borders option 
  2. The below screenshot depicts the view after removing the borders. 

 

8. How to adjust the colspan and column width? 

  1. Click shift and select multiple columns. 

To span a single table cell over multiple columns, the colspan is used. 

  1. Give the number of columns that need to be spanned in the colspan. 

‘Before adjusting the colspan’ 

 

‘After adjusting the colspan’ 

 

 

  1. Adjust the values in the column width to increase or decrease the width of the column 

 

 

9. How to zoom in or zoom out of the preview table? 

  1. Click shift and select multiple columns. 
  2. Click zoom in or zoom out option in the top right corner. 

‘Zoom in view’ 

 

‘Zoom out view’ 

 

 



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