Modify table cells

When you're working on a document in the Oxygen-based editor, after you create a table you can join and split cells, align text, and add borders.

The following steps explain how to access table options from the right-click menu. All right-click options are also available from the editor's toolbar by clicking the table icon.

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In the editor, put your cursor in the table cell you want to modify.
To span a cell over multiple columns and rows, select two or more adjacent cells.
1. You must turn off Change Tracking. In the toolbar, make sure the Change Tracking button is not highlighted. If it is, to turn it off, click the Change Tracking button.
2. In the toolbar, right-click and then select Join selected cells.
To split a cell, right-click and then select Split table cell into multiple cells.
1. You must turn off Change Tracking. In the toolbar, make sure the Change Tracking button is not highlighted. If it is, to turn it off, click the Change Tracking button.
2. On the Split cells dialog, choose how many columns should be created inside the cell by selecting Number of columns.
3. Choose how many rows should be created inside the cell by selecting Number of rows.
4. On the Split cells dialog, click OK.
To align cell text horizontally, right-click and then select Customize display properties.
1. On the Customize display properties dialog, select the Cell tab.
2. In Horizontal alignment, select either left, right, center, or justify.
  To align text to the leftmost occurrence of the value specified on the @char attribute for alignment, you can select char. Unless you go into the XML editor and add a value for the @char attribute, the cells in the header row are aligned center and all other cells are aligned left.
  
  If some cells already have use an alignment, you can choose <preserve> to keep those settings intact.
  
  If you don't want to specify any alignment for the cell (and don't want include this attribute in the table XML), you can choose <not set>.
To align cell text vertically, right-click and then select Customize display properties.
1. On the Customize display properties dialog, select the Cell tab.
2. In Vertical alignment, select either top, middle, or bottom.
  If some cells already have use an alignment, you can choose <preserve> to keep those settings intact.
  
  If you don't want to specify any alignment for the row (and don't include this attribute in the table XML), you can choose <not set>.
To add a border between cells, right-click and then select Customize display properties.
1. On the Customize display properties dialog, select the Cell tab.
2. In Column separator, select 1.
  If you want to make sure no borders are used between all cells in the table, select 0.
  
  If some cells already have a border, choose <preserve> to keep those borders intact.
  
  If you don't want to specify any kind of cell border (and don't want to include this attribute in the table XML), choose <not set>.