Tables

Tables are created in separate table documents. Start a new TNTEdit document and click the Table option from the Document Type section. You should now have a new TNTEdit document in the screen. The table document is set up with landscape orientation to accommodate wide tables.

Inserting a Table

1. Click the Insert TNT Table button on the toolbar , or select right mouse > TNT Tables > Create/Convert TNT Table. The TNT Table dialog opens:



2. Enter the number of the table in the Table Number field. The word "Table" is already inserted, however you can change this to whatever you want.

3. Enter the table title in the Table Title field.

4. Select the alignment for each column in the table using the alignment drop-down lists. Choose alignments only for the number of columns you want in the table and leave the remaining columns set to None.

5. Press OK.

6. You should now have a table on the screen, with the same number of columns as the number of columns you chose alignments for.

7. You can now enter text or numbers into the table cells.

Formatting Table Cells

There are a number of keymarks available for keymarking table cells. You can keymark cells using the TNT Tables right mouse button menus.

1. Select the cell or cells you want to keymark.

2. From the right-mouse menu choose TNT Tables.

3. The TNT Tables right mouse menu appears.



4. Select the keymark menu for Table Heads [TH] or Table Body [TB].

5. Choose the keymark you want to apply.

TNT Table Keymarks

Table Heads (TH)
Keymark	Definition
TH_FL	Table Head, Flush Left
TH_CTR	Table Head, Centered
TH_FR	Table Head, Flush Right
TH_DEC	Table Head, Decimal Align
TH_STRADDLE	Table Head, Straddle 2 or more cells
Table Body (TB)
TB_1/2L	Table Body, 1/2 Line space
TB_1L	Table Body, 1 Line Space
TB_FL	Table Body, Flush Left
TB_FL_HANG	Table Body, Flush Left, Turns Hang
TB_FL_IND1	Table Body, Flush Left, Indent, Turns Hang
TB_FL_IND2	Table Body, Flush Left, Indent, Turns Hang
TB_FL_IND3	Table Body, Flush Left, Indent, Turns Hang
TB_CTR	Table Body, Centered
TB_FR	Table Body, Flush Right
TB_DEC	Table Body, Decimal Align
TB_BULLET	Table Body, Bullet List
Other Table Keymarks
TN	Table Number
TT	Table Title
TFN	Table Footnote

Adjusting Tables with TNT Table Adjust

You can quickly adjust an entire table using TNT Table Adjust.

1. Place your cursor within the table you want to adjust.

2. Press the TNT Table Adjust button on the toolbar or select right mouse > TNT Tables > TNT Table Adjust. The TNT Table Adjust dialog opens:



3. Adjust the spacing of the rows and columns with the spacing options.

4. Use Change point size to adjust text within the table to take up more or less room.

5. Use Set Columns to Longest Line to adjust the width of each column to accommodate the longest line of text in that column.

Converting a Table to a TNTEdit Table

If you have a table that was not created with TNTEdit you can easily convert the table to TNTEdit.

1. Place the insertion point anywhere within the non-TNTEdit Table.

2. Click the Insert TNT Table button on the toolbar , or select right mouse > TNT Tables > Create/Convert TNT Table. The Convert to TNTEdit Table dialog opens:



3. Choose the number of column head rows. This is the number of rows at the top of the table that are or will be keymarked as table heads.

4. Press OK.

5. The table is converted to a TNTEdit Table, you can now keymark the cells using the TNT Table Keymarks.

Converting a Table to Text

The convert table to text function is a Microsoft Word® function that has been added to the TNT Tables right mouse button menu for convenience.

1. Place your cursor inside the table.

2. From the right-mouse button menu select TNT Tables > Convert Table to Text

3. Choose the Separate Text With option.



4. Press OK

5. The table is converted to text with the separator you chose placed between each cell.