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Document table ​

Add puts a table on the page — a styled grid of rows and columns that starts empty at three rows by three columns and holds real, editable text, so you type into it and format it like the rest of the Document rather than pasting in a picture of a table.

Select the table and its settings open along the bottom:

  • While you type in a cell, two small round buttons sit beside the end of its row — − removes that row, + adds one below it — and two more under its column — − removes that column, + adds one to its right. A table holds up to twenty rows and ten columns, and always keeps at least one of each.
  • Border width sets how thick the grid lines are and Border sets their colour. Round curves the table's four outer corners, and Padding sets how much room each cell leaves around its text.
  • Head styles the first row as a header, Col styles the first column as one, and Stripe shades alternate rows. Each is a rule over the whole table, so one press restyles every row it covers. When a rule is on, its colour joins the swatches, including separate Odd stripe and Even stripe colours for the stripes.
  • The swatches also cover the text, the table's own background, and the Cell colour of whichever cell your cursor is in — a single-cell fill that sits on top of the header and stripe rules. Three colours stand side by side with their names; past three they fold into one Colors button showing just their circles — press it and every colour opens across the row with its name, and the ✕ folds them back.
  • The settings button at the end of the font row holds the words' weight and capitals, their outline while they have one, and a header's own words' colour and weight while that header is on; hover over one, or hold a finger still on it, to read what it does.
  • At the right end stands the table's look card: the sample word Abc in the look its words wear, named for that look. Press it to open a strip of looks in the settings' place — Bold, Karaoke, Headline, Sunset, Highlight, Neon and Minimal, the same looks a text box offers, then the looks you have starred. Picking one sets the words' size, weight, capitals, colour and outline in one step, and leaves the font, the alignment and a header's own colour and weight alone; its capitals and outline come off again from the settings button. The star on the card stars the table whole, and the star on the Starred row of that strip's search stars the look itself, for text boxes, tables and captions alike.

To type into the table, select it and click the cell you want (or press Enter to start in the first cell); clicking another cell moves you there. Rows grow to fit what you type, and the table grows down the page with them. While your cursor is in one of its cells, the − and + beside its row and under its column add and remove rows and columns right there, and the table's settings also show Merge and Split, to merge the cells you have selected or split a merged one.

How a table exports. A table comes out as it looks on the page — colours, header, stripes, borders, padding and rounded corners — in PDF, PNG, HTML, PPTX and DOCX. In PPTX it is drawn as cells of its own, so its text stays exactly where the editor put it. In DOCX it is a real Word table you can keep editing, except a turned or rounded table, which comes across as a picture of itself. Markdown keeps a table's rows, cells and text formatting as a Markdown table, and Text keeps each row on its own line with the cells separated by tabs.

Where you can use a document table ​

  • Document — Groups

What you can do with a document table you made ​

The star on the table's look card stars the table whole, and a starred table can be put into another document:

Star · Copy