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119 Chapter 8: Working with Tables A table is a powerful tool for presenting tabular data. For example, you might add a table to a web page that lists all your sales reps in one column, with their contact information in another column. In Adobe® Contribute® CS3, you can add text and images to table cells the same way that you add text and images to a page (see "Working with Text" on page 85 and "Working with Images and Graphic Elements" on page 99). After you create a table you can easily modify both its appearance and structure. This chapter contains the following sections: • "About conflicts in table formatting" on page 119 • "Inserting a table on a page" on page 120 • "Selecting table elements" on page 121 • "Resizing tables, rows, and columns" on page 122 • "Aligning tables" on page 123 • "Cutting and copying table cells" on page 124 • "Adding, deleting, and merging table rows and columns" on page 125 • "Modifying table appearance" on page 127 • "Sorting tabular data" on page 131 About conflicts in table formatting When formatting tables, you can set properties for the entire table or for selected cells, rows, or columns in the table. When a table property, such as background color or alignment, is set to one value for the entire table and another value for individual cells, cell formatting takes precedence over row formatting, which in turn takes precedence over table formatting. The order of precedence for table formatting is as follows: 1 Cells 2 Rows 3 Table For example, if you set the background color for a single cell to blue, and then set the background color of the entire table to yellow, the blue cell does not change to yellow because cell formatting takes precedence over table formatting. Note: When you set properties for a column, Contribute changes the attributes of the td tag corresponding to each cell in the column.