Setting Up Quick Tables

Preformatted quick tables enable you to quickly insert "standard" tables into your documentation.

A quick table is a topic containing a preformatted table, with or without standard text. If you use a number of different tables throughout your documentation just create a separate topic for each quick table, then store all the topics in a single folder.

Adding extra topics to your quick tables folder

You can add new quick table topics to your folder at any time. However, the preview list must be refreshed before the new topics are displayed in the preview list. To do this you can either reassign the folder containing the quick tables, open a book or topic, or close and reopen your current book or topic.

To Create the Quick Table Samples:

1. Create a folder in your library to store your quick table topics.
2. In the folder, create a new topic using any standard topic template.

   Note: Create the topic in the folder but don't add it to a Book object.

3. Open the topic and insert a table with the required number of columns and rows. Resize the table as required, then apply border, cell, style, and text formatting to the table cells. You can also add standard text such as row or column headings (and any standard text before or after the table if needed).
4. Save the topic.

After creating the quick tables you need to tell Author-it which folder they are stored in.

To Assign the Quick Tables Folder:

1. Under Edit > Tables > Table > Quick Table choose Change Folder for Quick Tables. The Select Folder window is opened.
2. Select the folder from the list and choose OK.

Once the folder has been assigned you are ready to insert the tables into your topics.