Hello
I recently updated pages and cannot figure out how to center a table? Any suggestions? Using the circle in the upper left hand corner does not seem to work as suggested. Also wondering how to highlight. I see highlight under insert but that is only to highlight while working on the text and does not print out.
Thank you
MacBook Pro
Select the upper left circle to select the entire table. Your Format > Arrange tab will be highlighted. On that tab's panel, there is an Align selector. Choose Align Center.
Select the text in your table cell that you wish to highlight. What you want is Character Fill Color, which lives in the gear drop down next to underline in the Text tab. This will paint color behind your text that survives PDF and printing.
Select the upper left circle to select the entire table. Your Format > Arrange tab will be highlighted. On that tab's panel, there is an Align selector. Choose Align Center.
Select the text in your table cell that you wish to highlight. What you want is Character Fill Color, which lives in the gear drop down next to underline in the Text tab. This will paint color behind your text that survives PDF and printing.
I can't find a way to center a table either. To hightlight text, select the text and click the gear button, then select Character Fill Color:
The Align dropdown is disabled, at least for me (5.1).
Seems to be disabled for me too. The only way I can select the whole table is to go to edit then select all. There is no align center under format or arrange. I think the table much be locked some how and needs to be changed to a floating table before it can be centered.
Thanks for the help....I think I have the highlighting now. Why didn't they just call it highlight:)
Teresa
If you change Text Wrap to Automatic then the Align dropdown is enabled.
While we're talking about pages....I also cannot figure out how to make all the rows in a table even. I know I can drag them but it is too difficult to get the exact size needed wit all rows.
Thanks
Teresa
Look at the Format > Table > Resize and Format > Table > Distribute menu commands.
Well that was easy. I was changing to stay on page and doing something similar and when I went back to in line the table went back too. This seems to work. Thank You
Teresa
Select the entire table with the upper left dark circle. Your Format > Table tab has Row & Column Size. With your entire table selected, you can use the spinners to change the row or column values to your taste, or just select Fit.
Guess what it doesn't work because now it doesn't move with the text
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If the table is inline, all you have to do is click in the paragraph/line it is in and make that centred, it acts just like text.
Of course there has to be enough room each side for it to move.
Peter
To get it to move with the text and follow what Peter has described, I believe that Object Placement needs to be set to Move with Text, which sets Text Wrap to Inline with Text.
By clicking to the right of the table, you're selecting the line the table is on. You can then set the text alignment to center and the table will move with the text.
That just makes a larger table. I have a small table that I need to center. There has to be a center function. They wouldn't expect us to eye ball it all the time. Wouldn they?
Teresa
We just gave it to you.
How does it make it a larger table? You are doing something else.
Peter
This example uses the settings for inline text that we've described. I click to the right of the table (or move the cursor up or down until it lands slightly behind the table) and select the Center text alignment. If text is inserted above the table it is moved down and maintains its centered position.
Centering a table in updated pages and highlighting
