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About using tables

Table is a kind of common element in documents. There are two ways to insert tables into document.

Simple tables

To insert a simple table (each row has the same number of columns and each column has the same number of rows; each cell do not contain too much text; using standard style defined in CSS) into the document, you can use Extension tags [TABLE]...[/TABLE].

Complex tables

To insert a complex table into the document, you can:
  1. Create the table in a web page creation tool such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver.
  2. Pick up the source code between <table> and </table>(include <table> and </table>) to save them into a text file positioned in Included Files folder.
  3. Use Extension tags [INC]...[/INC] to include the text file that contains the HTML source code of the table into the document.
Tip: If you have experiences with HTML and web page creation tools, it is better to save the table source code as .htm file, because .htm file can be opened and saved by web page creation tools directly, you can open, edit and save it just like opening, editing and saving a picture with a picture processor.

But this .htm file not containing html, head and body tags is not a standard HTML file. This maybe puzzles someone who's not familiar with HTML and web page creation tools. Moreover, some web page creation tools cannot correctly process these non-standard html files. You'd better use Microsoft FrontPage 2000 or later version or Macromedia Dreamweaver to do this and test them for the first use.



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