Table

A table is a styled grid of rows and columns you place on a picture or a video from the Add menu and type straight into. It arrives empty at three rows by three columns, and everything about it is a setting rather than something you draw by hand. On a video it gets its own row on the timeline and can be moved, timed and tilted like any other drawing.

Add and remove rows and columns from the cell you're in. While you type in a cell, two small round buttons sit beside the end of its row — − removes that row, + adds an empty row below it — and two more sit under its column — − removes that column, + adds an empty column to its right. You stay in the same cell to keep typing. A table holds up to twenty rows and ten columns, and always keeps at least one of each; a button that cannot do anything there is greyed out.

Type in a cell. With the table selected, tap the cell you want and type into it (or press Enter to start in the first cell); clicking another cell moves you there. Cells grow to fit their text as you type: the column widens, and the row gets taller the moment a line wraps, so nothing you write is ever clipped or hidden. Press Escape to leave the cell, and Escape again to put the table down.

Set the column widths yourself. With the table selected and no cell open, drag any line between two columns to set that column's width by hand. The columns beside it share out the space that's left, so the table keeps the overall width you gave it. The boundaries answer the arrow keys too, one pixel at a time and ten with Shift held.

Draw the lines. Border width sets how thick the grid lines are, and the Border colour sets what colour they are. Set the width to zero for a table with no lines at all. Round curves the table's four outer corners, from square right through to a fully rounded edge. Padding sets how much room every cell leaves around its text.

Style whole rows and columns at once, not cell by cell. Three switches sit beside the colours: Head styles the first row as a header, Col styles the first column as one, and Stripe shades alternate rows. Each one is a rule over the whole table, so turning it on restyles every row it covers in one press, and turning it off puts them back. When a rule is on, its own colour appears beside the others — Head fill and Col fill for the headers, and separate Odd stripe and Even stripe colours for the stripes.

Set the colours. The swatches along the bottom cover the text, the Border, the table's own background, whichever rule colours are showing, and the Cell colour of the one cell you have open — a single-cell fill that sits on top of the header and stripe rules. The table's own background clears back to see-through, so a table can sit over the picture with nothing behind its text, and so does the Even stripe colour. Behind the settings button at the end of the font row stand the words' weight and capitals, their outline while they have one, and — while a header is on — that header's words' colour and weight. Hover over one of those settings, or hold a finger still on it, to read what it does.

Give the words a look. At the right end of the Table tab stands a card showing the sample word Abc in the look the table's words wear, named for that look. Press it to open a strip of looks in the settings' place, its search at the strip's start — Bold, Karaoke, Headline, Sunset, Highlight, Neon and Minimal, the same looks a text item's Text tab offers — then the looks you have starred; the card's close, or Escape, goes back to the settings. 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, so a header row keeps standing out. Change the words' size, weight, capitals, colour or outline afterwards and the card reads Custom; the star on the Starred row of that strip's search stars the look for text, captions and tables alike. A look's capitals and outline come off again from the settings button at the end of the font row.

Where you can use a table

• Image — Groups
• Video — Groups

A document's table is a table of its own, which flows with the page's text.

What you can do with a table you made

The star on the look card at the right end of the Table tab stars the table whole, and a starred table can be put into another picture or video:

Star · Copy

Table

• Padding — How much room stands between a table cell’s words and its edges, in pixels.
• Header row — Whether the first row is styled as a header.
• Head fill — The color behind the header row’s cells.
• Head text — The color of the header row’s words.
• Head bold — Whether the header row’s words are bold.
  • Off · On
• Header column — Whether the first column is styled as a header.
• Col fill — The color behind the header column’s cells.
• Col text — The color of the header column’s words.
• Col bold — Whether the header column’s words are bold.
  • Off · On
• Stripes — Whether the rows alternate between two fills.
• Odd stripe — The fill of every other row, starting with the first below any header.
• Even stripe — The fill of the rows between the odd ones.
• Cell — The colour one cell of a table is filled with, over the table’s own.

A table's words take a text's font, size, alignment, weight and capitals, described on the Text page; its background, its lines and its words' colour are its ink, and its corners a shape's Round, described on the Shape page.