• Select Table from main menu, then select Insert, then select ' Table...'
  

Doing so will bring up this window:


After this opens, you specify how you want your table to look. Enter the number of columns and rows you want your table to contain. Set your width of the table (each column will have a distributed even width to the width you set for the entire table). The height of the rows will always be about 10 pixels in height (Frontpage puts a spacing character directly in the row to keep this height) until changed later. Then you choose the layout of your table. In the alignment drop down menu, you can set how the whole table will be aligned on the page. Then set the border to a size (in pixels). The borders for a table include borders between cells as well as the border surrounding the whole table. Cell padding is the spacing you want between the contents of that cell and the border of that cell, similar to margins on a page only for your individual cells. Cell spacing is spacing you want between cells in a table. Making a larger cell spacing, will create more spacing in between each cell.

The table in this case would look like this on a web page:




• Another way to create a table is to use the table icon in the standard toolbar, click this button, and after moving the mouse down some you should see:
  
  
  This allows you to create a table with a number of columns and rows depending how many boxes you select(turn blue when selected). In this instance there are going to be 4 columns by 3 rows because it is selected 4 boxes wide and 3 boxes high. Each box in the horizontal/width direction represents a column, while each box in the vertical/height direction represents a row. Once you have selected the number of columns and rows, just click to create the table.
  
  Using this example our table will look like this:
  
  
  
  As you can see the table is created with 4 columns, 3 rows, and a total of 12 cells. Now we can edit the options of our table to better suit our page.

ii. Editing a Table - back to top

When editing a table you can edit the properties of the entire cell as well as the properties of each individual cell. First we will discuss the properties of the whole table.

To edit table properties:

• Click anywhere in your table, in any cell
• Go to 'Table' in the main menu then select Table Properties, then select Table
or
Right click anywhere in the table and select Table Properties.

The Table Properties window will now appear:

• Select within a cell adjacent to where you want to make a new row or column
• Go to Table in the main menu, then to Insert, then select 'Rows and Columns'


A window will appear:


From here you can choose how many rows or columns you want to add, with respect to the cell you are selected in. Select how many rows you wish to add above or below your selection, or select how many columns you wish to add to the left or to the right of your selection.

or


• Right click within a cell in your table. In the right click menu choose the option 'Insert Rows' or 'Insert Columns'. If you choose Insert rows, it will insert a row above the row you currently have your cursor in. If you choose Insert Columns it will insert an extra column to the right of the column your currently selected.

*Tip - Pressing the Tab key in the last cell of the last row will automatically add another row to the table.

• Select a row of cells. This is done by first placing the mouse cursor on the left edge on the table and next to the row you wish to select. If your mouse is in the correct position, you will see a small black arrow, click while seeing this arrow and you will select the row. Or click anywhere in the row and go to Table in the main menu, then choose select, then click row.
  
• With the row now selected, right click and select merge cells
  or
  select Table from main menu then select merge cells
  or
  select the merge cells icon from the tables toolbar

• Select into the cell you wish to split into smaller cells
• Right click into the cell and select Split Cells
  or
  select Table from the main menu then select split cells
  or
  select the split cells icon from the tables toolbar


( A window will now appear, depending on which way you want the cell to be split )


• Select whether you want to split the cell into columns or rows then enter how many cells you want the current cell to be split into.

• To select only one cell, click into the cell you want to delete, then go to Table in the main menu then click select, then Cell. Or you can select multiple cells by clicking into one cell, holding the shift key, then clicking other cell(s) to add them to your selection. You can also select the entire row of cells for removal by selecting the row.
• Go to Table in the main menu, then click delete cells to remove the cells
  or
  right click over the selected cells and select delete cells
  or
  select the delete cells icon in the table toolbar

• Select the cell you wish to change
• Right click into the cell and select cell properties
  or 
  select Table in the main menu, then table properties, then click cell