Inserting Tables

There are several ways to create a table in a text document. You can insert a table from a toolbar, through a menu command, or from a spreadsheet.

To insert a table from the Insert toolbar

Place the cursor in your document where you want to insert the table.
On the Standard bar, click the arrow next to the Table icon.
In the table grid, drag to select the numbers of rows and columns that you want, and then release.

To cancel, drag to the other side until Cancel appears in the preview area of the grid.

Open the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet containing the cell range that you want to insert.
In the spreadsheet, drag to select the cells.
Choose Edit - Copy.
In your text document, do one of the following:

Choose Edit - Paste. The cell range is pasted as an OLE object. To edit the contents of the cells, double-click the object.
Choose Edit - Paste Special, and choose from the following options:

Options	Is inserted as...
OpenOffice.org r2.1 Spreadsheet	OLE object - as with Ctrl+V or drag-and-drop
GDIMetaFile	Graphic
Bitmap	Graphic
HTML	HTML table
Unformatted text	Text only, tab stops as separators
Formatted text [RTF]	Text table
DDE link (only under Windows)	Table structure and contents, without formatting. With updating

Open the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet containing the cell range that you want to insert.
In the spreadsheet, drag to select the cells.
Click and hold the mouse button in the selected cells.
Drag the selected cells into the text document.

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