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6. In the Cell Styles area, open the drop-down list and repeat Step 5 for the Headers
(that is, the column headings) and the Title.
7. Click OK to close the New Table Style dialog box.
The Table Style dialog box reappears.
8. Click Close.
Your new table style becomes the current table style that AutoCAD uses for future
tables in this drawing, and the Table Style dialog box closes. Now you're ready to
create a table, as described in the next section.
You can access the Manage Cell Styles dialog box directly from the Cell Styles
drop-down list of the New Table Style dialog box. The Table Cell Format (on the
General tab, Format row, click the ellipsis button) dialog box provides a number of
additional options for formatting cells by data type.
AutoCAD stores table styles in the DWG file, so a style that you create in one drawing
isn't immediately available in others. You can copy a table style from one drawing to an-
other with DesignCenter. (Use the procedure for copying layers between drawings out-
lined in Chapter 6, but substitute Tablestyles for Layers.)
Creating and editing tables
After you create a suitable table style, adding a table to your drawing is easy with the
TABLE command. Here's how:
1. Set an appropriate layer current.
Assuming that you leave the current color, linetype, and lineweight set to ByLayer,
as I recommend in Chapter 6, the current layer's properties will control the proper-
ties of any parts of the table that you left set to ByBlock when you defined the table
style. (See Step 5 in the preceding section, “Tables have style, too.”)
2. On the Home tab's Annotation panel, choose Table.
The Insert Table dialog box appears.
3. Choose a table style from the Table Style drop-down list.
4. Choose an Insertion Behavior:
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Specify Insertion Point:
The easiest method. You pick the location of the
table's upper-left corner (or lower-left corner if you set Table Direction to Up
