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With Style Editor, you can create and customize table styles
according to your requirements. Applying a table style instead of
inline formatting helps you add standard and easy-to-maintain tables.
If you modify a table style, all tables using that style also change.
You can modify the appearance of existing tables by applying
a style. RoboHelp asks you if you want to remove inline formatting
also.
For tips and workarounds related to customizing tables, see the
Table section in Peter Grainge’s RoboHelp tour.
Global table stylesYou can select predefined styles for a table. These styles
are available globally and can be used across projects to define
different tables. Global table styles are present at C:\Documents
and Settings\ [user name]\Application Data\Adobe\RoboHTML\ [version]\Templates\Tables.
For Windows Vista®, global table styles
are present at C:\users\ [user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\RoboHTML\ [version]\Templates\Tables. Note: If
you delete the Tables folder from the suggested location, the global
table styles are still visible in the Global Styles list. You can
always recover the styles from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp
[version]\RoboHTML\Gallery\Tables.
In addition to the predefined global styles, you can copy table
styles from a project folder and paste at C:\Documents and Settings\ [user name]\Application Data\Adobe\RoboHTML\ [version]\Templates\Tables.
These table styles are available globally for all the projects.  Click the Apply Global Table Style  icon
on the Tables And Borders toolbar to apply a style on the table. Apply table stylesTo apply a table style on an existing table, do the following:
Select an existing table in a topic.
Click the Apply Global Table Style icon on
the Tables And Borders toolbar to apply a style on the table.
In the Select Table Style dialog box, select Clean Table
Inline Formatting. Selecting Clean Table Inline Formatting removes
any inline styles used in the table.
Select a style from the Available Styles list or select a
global table style (table template).
Click OK. Note: You can double-click a style in the Table
Style dialog box to apply it to a table.
Create and manage table stylesBesides using global table styles (table templates) and
predefined table styles in the CSS, you can create custom table
styles to ensure consistent table layouts, borders, alignment, shading,
and fonts. You can vary characteristics such as the colors, fonts,
bold, italics, and alignments applied to rows and columns.
John Daigle demonstrates some easy ways to create and manage tables and table
styling.
Create table stylesSelect Format > Styles.
Click Create New Style and select Table Style.
Name the new table style and click OK.
Apply formatting to the whole table, first or last column
or row, or a group of rows or columns. From the Apply Formatting
To list, select the columns or rows to format. For example, you
can make the background of the first row blue and the background
of first column yellow.
Select font, size, and color.
Select border and border color.
Click Apply. The new style appears in the CSS Styles list
of the Table Styles dialog box. Select this style to create tables
with the same style later.
Notes:Click the Apply Global
Table Style icon on
the Tables And Borders toolbar to apply a style to the table.
Based on the sequence of changes, in the first and last cell
of a row, the row color overrides the column color.
The
appearance of a table is the result of several classes, such as
Table, TR, and TD. RoboHelp applies these subclasses to the respective
table item when you apply a table class. Therefore, if you want
to change a table style through code or script, write a class attribute
(class=”myTableClass”) in the table tag. RoboHelp applies all the
table patterns for the remaining items of the table in Design Editor.
Apply conditional build tags to tablesConditional build tags let you exclude content from output. Select a row, column, table, or text in a table.
Select Format > Apply Conditional Build Tags > New/Multiple.
Select tags. Click OK.
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