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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.
I really appreciate all the help. When I use that alignment bar it seems to be only for text. I don't see it on any other tab in the inspector. I might be missing it. This is an example of what I need to center. The tables are always between text. I have figured out how to get even rows/colums and highlight. Thanks for that everyone.
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the pasted graphic was just a plain table that was moved over to the side
Message was edited by: tsmotherof3
If you have the table pasted into the text (inline) it acts exactly like a big fat character, so if you centre the text of the paragraph that it is in, the table gets centred.
The question is do you have it pasted in the text as an inline graphic?
Peter
Now that is possible. I will check and do a mock one and I guess just play with it. I know it must be relatively simple. Just can't find the right switch
Thanks
Teresa
I was able to do it on my mock paper and chart but was not able to do it with a table in a report. The report is generated from a template. The tables are from older programs.
On the old one it is only the text that gets centered. Half the table is already filled in
I just figured out that if you grab the line of text above the table and the line of text below the table and center the whole thing, the table centers. However, you do have to go back and fix the text to go left. I bet that is not how apple wanted to work but it does. I know there has to be another way
Thanks for your help.
Teresa
Sounds like you do not have the Table in its own paragraph. ie with a return before and after it.
Create a style for the table paragraph and another for the regular text, then apply them where needed.
Peter
I couldn't get any of the suggestions to work – though I have to admit I didn't try really hard. I used a different workaround.
I added a new column at the left – then adjusted its size until the rest of the columns were centered (or close enough). Not a great solution for a lot of cases, but it works for me.
Centering a table in updated pages and highlighting
