When you're working on a document in the Oxygen-based editor, after you create a table you can add and delete columns, 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 column you want to modify.
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To insert a new column after the current one, right-click and then select
Insert column after.
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To delete a column, right-click and then select
Delete selected column(s).
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To align column text horizontally, right-click and then select
Customize display properties.
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On the Customize display properties dialog, select the Column tab.
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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 column in the header row is aligned center and all other rows for this column are aligned left.
If some columns 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 column (and don't want include this attribute in the table XML), you can choose <not set>.
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To add a border between columns, right-click and then select Customize display properties.
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On the Customize display properties dialog, select the Column tab.
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In Column separator, select 1.
If you want to make sure no borders are used between all columns in the table, select 0.
If some columns already have a border, you can choose <preserve> to keep those borders intact.
If you don't want to specify any kind of column border (and don't want to include this attribute in the table XML), you can choose <not set>.
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To save your column formatting changes, on the Customize display properties dialog, click OK.
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To save your changes to the document, in the toolbar, click Save.