Let me first
recommend that you do my
first lesson working with Front Page if you do not
know the
basics of the editor already. This tute will walk you
through how to setup a table using Front Page
2002.
1.) First
open Front Page, you should have something that looks
like this...
2.) Go to
File, "Save As" and name your new page, I named mine
table.htm and placed it on my desktop.
You can name yours whatever you'd like and place it
anywhere you'd like but put it in a place you can find
easily!
3.) Go
through and setup your font type, color, and your link
colors. Add a background color or tile
if you wish! If you do not know how to do this refer to
my lesson 1 on setting up a simple webpage.
4.) Let's
make a table now! Look at the screenshot of the Toolbar
below, see where the arrow is?
Left click on the icon, the boxes shown in the
screenshot above should open, select the first square
in the box. This sets the table with only one cell.
Play around with clicking on the different boxes
to see what they do if you want, you can go to Edit,
and click undo after each time to get your page
back. Once you're finished playing, make the table by
clicking the first square.
Now let's set the table how we want it.
5,) Go to
your Toolbar and click on "Table", Table Properties,
Table, a box like this will appear...
Let's go through setting up our "Layout" first. Click
on the drop down menu beside "Alignment" first.
Most often you will set this to "center" Leave "Float"
on "Default". "Specify width" should be checked
and so should "In percent". If you set your table to
percent it will adjust to fit whatever size monitor
the person viewing the page has. You can change the
percentage of the table by lowering the 100. A
good normal size is 80.
6.) Next is
"Cell padding" and "Cell Spacing" These two set the
padding and spacing that your border
will have around it. These can be set to 0 if you do
not want your border to have them but leave them
on 1 for now so you can see what they do.
7.) Now let's
make our settings under "Borders". The "size" sets the
border size that is around the table.
Sometimes you may not want a border around it, so you
can set this to 0 if you want but if you do then
the "cell padding" and "cell spacing" also needs to be
set to 0. For this lesson let's set the Size to 3.
8.) Next
comes the "color". You can set this to any color you'd
like the border around your table to be.
The table that this tutorial is written in is setup
like we are setting this table.
9.) Look
under "Background" "Color", this is where you can set a
color for the background within your
table. When set to Automatic the table color will be
whatever color or tile you have your page background
set to! Once you have you table set like you want it
click OK and exit table setup.
10.) We will
play with our cell settings next. Go to "Table", "Table
Properties", and click on "Cell". A
box will popup like this....
In this box under "Layout", "Horizontal alignment" you
can set how your text will appear in your table.
You can set it to be left, right, center, or justified
aligned. My text in this table is set to left align
but I also set my text on the toolbar to "Increase
Indent" so that my text would not be right on my
table line. How you want yours set is up to you. Most
times you'll probably want it set to center.
11.)
"Vertical Alignment" In this drop down you have a
choice of setting where in the page you want
your text/images to start. Normally you will want to
set this to "Top" but play around with the
different setting to see what suits your needs best.
Once you have your table set like you want, click
OK to exit cell setup.
12.) All
tables in Front Page is setup this way, if you choose
to setup a multi-cell table you will need
to set the "cell properties" within each cell of the
table. The table properties only need to be set once,
but each cell within the table has to be set
separately. To learn how to work with a multi cell
table
check back soon for Lesson 3!
I hope this
tutorial has shown you how easy it can be to setup a
table using Front Page.
Check back soon because I plan to have other help
tutorials.
Until next
time,
God Bless!
Connie