CorelDRAW Help | Add tables

Add tables

With CorelDRAW, 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 organize the content.

To add a table to a drawing

1 Click the Table tool

2 Type values in the Rows and columns boxes on the property bar.

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.

3 Drag diagonally to draw the table.

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.

To create a table from text

1 Click the Pick tool

2 Select the text that you want to convert to a table.

3 Click Table

Convert text to table.

4 In the Create columns based on the following separator area, choose one of the following options:

• Commas — creates a column where a comma appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears

• Tabs — creates a column where a tab appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears

• Paragraphs — creates a column where a paragraph marker appears

• User defined — creates a column where a specified marker appears and a row where a paragraph marker appears

If you enable the User defined option, you must type a character in the User defined box.

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.

You can also convert a table to text. For more information, see To convert a table to text.