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Table Cell Properties

Table cell properties can be accessed by right-clicking within a table cell (or a group of selected table cells) and choosing Cell Properties.

Note: In FrontPage, you may manually adjust the table cell sizes by dragging on the table lines. However, please note that this only works for tables that have a defined width and/or height. If you have a resizable table, dragging on table lines may freeze the table to have a defined width and height and thereby destroy the layout.

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Horizontal alignment: This specifies how the text will be horizontally aligned in the cell (left, right, center).

Aligned to the left (default)
Aligned to the right
Aligned in the center

Vertical alignment: This specifics how the text will be vertically aligned in the cell (top, bottom, middle).

Aligned in middle (default) Aligned to bottom Aligned to top

Rows/Columns spanned: This allows you to set if the cell stretches across any rows or columns. In the example below, A spans across two columns, while G spans across two rows.

A B
C D E
F G H
I J

Specify width/height: Allows you to specify the width and height of specific cells. Usually you will not need to specify the height, as cells grow vertically to accommodate your content. Widths may be in pixels (fixed size) or percentages (relative to the size of the table). Note that if you have a table that is itself 50% of the browser window size, setting a cell to be 25% will cause it to be 25% of the width of the table.

Header cell: Check this if you want to make the cell a header cell.

No wrap: Check this if you want the content in a table cell to remain on one line - that is, the lines do not "wrap" around.

I don't want this table cell to wrap at all These other table cells wrap This cell wraps as well.

Borders: You may set the colors of the cell borders (this may not work across all browsers).

Background: You may set the background color or image of a table cell. If you set a background image that is smaller than the rendered table, the background image will repeat. Modify the Style properties to set more specific parameters for how the background image is displayed.

Style: Allows you to format the table cell properties using Cascading Style Sheets.

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