Editing Table Data

Beyond filling in a table with all the relevant information, you can also format it to display the data in an aesthetically pleasing fashion. You can change justification, alter border color and/or lineweight, and even change the background color of chosen cells to highlight them. In the following steps, you will format cells, add an additional row and a formula, and finally change an attribute and regenerate the drawing to see the table update:

  1. If the file is not already open, go to the book's web page, browse to Chapter 15, get the file Ch15-E.dwg or Ch15-E-metric.dwg, and open it.
  2. images Click the word Dee (cell A5 in the table) ...

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