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Introduction

The editor allows you to You can insert a choice range of per-formatted tables into your document.

How to insert a table

Place your cursor in the provision that you would like to insert your table after

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Lawmaker will insert the table on the line below the text in your provision

How to update table properties

With your cursor in the table, select to update table properties by

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Lawmaker will update your table

How to insert additional rows or columns

With your cursor in the appropriate cell, select to insert a row or column by

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The system will insert the appropriate row/column to your table based on your cursor location

How to delete a row or a column

With your cursor in a cell in the selected column/row, specify you would like to delete the column or row by

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The system will delete the selected row/column based on the cursor location

How to delete a table

Place cursor in the table that you want to delete

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The system will remove the table completely from your document

How to merge cells

Highlight the cells you wish to merge (vertically or horizontally)

Right-click and select Table > Merge cells

How to unmerge cells

Highlight the cell you wish to unmerge (vertically or horizontally or both)

Right-click and select Table > Unmerge cells

Info

Hints and tips

You can create back-to-back tables by:

  • placing your cursor at the outer right-hand edge of the table so that the breadcrumb is ….> Content > Tbl block > foreign > table

  • using the right facing arrow key, move forwards 3 presses so that cursor is now inside the ‘content’ element and breadcrumb reads …> Content

  • now insert a table as usual using the ‘How to insert a table’ instructions above

  • the new table will be inserted after the existing table

  • to change the order, you can use the structure view to drag and drop the tables into a new order.  

It is possible to insert tables directly into Parts, Schedules and other non-text provisions

The row count includes the header row.  If you uncheck header in the styles and formatting, the row count will decrease by 1

If you delete the last column or row, you will delete the entire table

If you place your cursor in the header row, you can insert another row that is a header by selecting ‘insert row above’ or ‘insert row below’

It is possible to insert structured text in the table cells e.g. numbered lists including quoted structures

If the text looks squashed in the PDF it could be because the column width you specified is too narrow.  You will need to adjust the column width to correct the text formatting.

The PDF line counting will count each line of text within a row, including repeating headers

You cannot merge the first row of your table with the header row (vertical merge).  If you want to merge two cells in the header, you will need to insert another header row by placing your cursor in the header row and inserting another row before/after which will insert another row classed as a header row.

When specifying the width of columns, you need to be accurate to 2 decimal places e.g a 2 column width might be 33.33 and 66.66.

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