adding a cell to multiple tables
Posted: 2009-02-01 21:07:11
Hello,
I have a long, table-laden nisus doc--there are five or so different tables on each page of the document. I need to add the same sized cell to multiple simple tables--to insure uniformity across the document.
One type of table is being used something like a header on each page of about half the document (29 instances). Each such table is simple: a single row with two cells in it (a number in one, title in the other). ((And tables were used here for design, we wanted a light gray fill with thin borders around each cell to set off this and two other sections on each page.))
However, at this late point, we need to add another cell (on the right) to each of these simple "header" tables, and we'd like them all to be the same horizontal size. (Vertical should follow along, and while formating would also be nice off the bat, that is a low priority.)
I'd approach this task in two more or less brute force-like ways: (a) design a new table, paste it into each location, and then re-do the contents in each; (b) gamble on eye-balling it--go thru the process of adding a cell to each table, adjust the width of each separately, and hope that minor differences in cell width will be unnoticeable.**
But is there an easier way? Could I add a basic cell to each such header, set one the way I want it, and then copy its properties and apply those to the other added cells? Or, can I somehow tell nisus in advance what kind of cell to add each time I do so?
Thanks, (and if I'm missing something obvious, let me know as bluntly as you'd like.
)
John D.
**Perhaps something for a future version would be a guideline, so that when moving a cell border (changing cell size), a guide would appear, in this case vertically, so that physically moving multiple cell boundaries to the same ruler mark would be easier.
I have a long, table-laden nisus doc--there are five or so different tables on each page of the document. I need to add the same sized cell to multiple simple tables--to insure uniformity across the document.
One type of table is being used something like a header on each page of about half the document (29 instances). Each such table is simple: a single row with two cells in it (a number in one, title in the other). ((And tables were used here for design, we wanted a light gray fill with thin borders around each cell to set off this and two other sections on each page.))
However, at this late point, we need to add another cell (on the right) to each of these simple "header" tables, and we'd like them all to be the same horizontal size. (Vertical should follow along, and while formating would also be nice off the bat, that is a low priority.)
I'd approach this task in two more or less brute force-like ways: (a) design a new table, paste it into each location, and then re-do the contents in each; (b) gamble on eye-balling it--go thru the process of adding a cell to each table, adjust the width of each separately, and hope that minor differences in cell width will be unnoticeable.**
But is there an easier way? Could I add a basic cell to each such header, set one the way I want it, and then copy its properties and apply those to the other added cells? Or, can I somehow tell nisus in advance what kind of cell to add each time I do so?
Thanks, (and if I'm missing something obvious, let me know as bluntly as you'd like.
)John D.
**Perhaps something for a future version would be a guideline, so that when moving a cell border (changing cell size), a guide would appear, in this case vertically, so that physically moving multiple cell boundaries to the same ruler mark would be easier.