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With Corel DESIGNER, you can add a table to a drawing to create a structured layout for text and images. You can draw a table, or you can create a table from existing text.
In this example, a table was used to create the title block of a drawing.
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Click the Table tool
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Type values in the Rows and columns boxes on the property bar.
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The value that you type in the top portion specifies the number of rows; the value that you type in the bottom portion specifies the number of columns. |
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Drag diagonally to draw the table.
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You can also create a table by clicking Table  Create new table, and then
typing values in the Number of rows, Number of columns, Height, and
Width boxes.
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| To create a table from text | |
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Click the Pick tool
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Select the text that you want to convert to a table.
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Click Table Convert text to table.
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In the Create columns based on the following separator area, choose one of the
following options:
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Commas — creates a column where a comma appears and a row where a
paragraph marker appears
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Tabs — creates a column where a tab appears and a row where a paragraph
marker appears
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Paragraphs — creates a column where a paragraph marker appears
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User defined — creates a column where a specified marker appears and a row
where a paragraph marker appears
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If you enable the User defined option, you must type a character in the User defined box. |
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If you do not type a character in the User defined box, only one column is
created, and each paragraph of text creates a table row.
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You can also convert a table to text. For more information, see To convert a
table to text.
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