Have You Tried: Creating Tables

With this method, you use the Table command to specify the number of rows and columns, stretch and resize the columns, rows, or the entire table. If you use layout tabs for annotation, create your table directly on a layout tab. The scaling is automatic. If you use model space for annotation, you will need to scale the table. Tables do not support annotative scaling.

  1. Enter TABLE at the Command prompt.
  2. In the Insert Table dialog box, enter 4 columns and 3 data rows. Specify a location for the table.

By default, there are three styles of cells that appear when you use the Standard table style:

Tip: To adjust the width of the columns, it's often best to turn off object snaps [F3] first.

At this point, you could explode the table to convert it into simple lines. This is not a best practice, but is still much faster than creating the lines from scratch. Instead, let's take this table further.

Adding Information to a Table

  1. Click into each cell and enter the text as shown.

That's it, but there's plenty more to explore when you're ready. For example, you can define table styles to control the text formatting for the various cell types. You can also create a table automatically from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, and you can link the data between them.

Parent topic: Have You Tried: Tables

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