Inserting a Table Using Quick Tables

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

A quick table is a topic containing a preformatted table, with or without standard text. If you use a number of standard tables throughout your documentation you can create a separate topic for each quick table, and then store all the topics in a single folder. To insert a table in a topic, select the Quick Tables option (in the Editor choose Edit > Tables > Table) and choose the quick table you want from the preview.

Creating the Quick Tables:

1. Create a folder to store your Quick Tables.
2. Create a new topic in the folder (using any standard topic template).
3. Open the topic and insert a new 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 outside 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.

Assigning the Quick Tables Folder:

1. Under Edit > Tables > Table > Quick Table choose Change Folder for Quick Tables...
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.

Inserting a Table Using Quick Tables:

1. Move the cursor to the location where you want to insert the table.
2. Choose Edit > Tables > Table > Quick Table. A preview of each table is displayed.

   

3. Click on a table from the preview to insert it in your topic.
4. Add content to your table, then save the changes to the topic.