LibreOffice-Suite-Writer-6.3/C2/Tables-and-table-properties-in-Writer/English-timed
Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Table and table properties. |
00:07 | In this tutorial we will learn how to: |
00:12 | Insert a table in a Writer document |
00:15 | Add and modify rows and columns |
00:18 | And adjust the table properties as per our preference. |
00:23 | This tutorial is recorded using
Ubuntu Linux OS 18.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5 |
00:36 | Two files have been provided to you in the Code files link on this tutorial page.
Please download and extract the files. |
00:46 | Make a copy and then use them for practising. |
00:50 | Open the Resume.odt file which we have created earlier. |
00:56 | Now let’s learn how to insert Tables in a Writer document. |
01:02 | Place the cursor at the end of EDUCATION DETAILS and press Enter. |
01:08 | To insert a table into a document, click on the Insert table icon in the Standard toolbar. |
01:15 | Now, select the size of the table, that is the rows and columns you require. |
01:22 | I will select the 2X4 (2 by 4) option which will give me 4 rows and 2 columns. |
01:30 | Let me show you another way to insert a table into a Writer document. |
01:36 | Before that we will press the Ctrl + Z keys to undo the changes. |
01:43 | Now, click on the Table menu in the menu bar and then click on Insert table option. |
01:51 | Insert Table dialog-box opens with several fields. |
01:56 | In the Name field, let us name the table as Resumetable. |
02:02 | We will keep the number of Columns as 2. |
02:06 | In the Rows field, click on the Plus button and increase the number of rows. |
02:13 | Click the Minus button to decrease the number.
Let’s bring the number back to 3 |
02:20 | Below we see a list of Styles. |
02:24 | We can use this list to select a style for the table, if we want to. |
02:30 | We’ll click on the Default Style option for now. |
02:35 | Then click on the Insert button at the bottom right. |
02:40 | A table with two columns and two three rows get inserted below EDUCATION DETAILS. |
02:47 | Now we can type any information in tabular form inside the table. |
02:53 | Notice a new toolbar at the bottom. |
02:57 | Here are shortcuts to the most common table features. |
03:02 | Let’s click inside the cell in column 1 and row 1 of the table. |
03:08 | Here we’ll type Secondary School Examination. |
03:13 | Now, click on the adjacent cell and type 93 %. |
03:19 | Likewise, we will type other educational details in the table, as shown. |
03:25 | To add a new row, use the Rows below icon in the table toolbar at the bottom. |
03:33 | When we are in the last row of a table, press the Tab key on the keyboard.
This will add another row to our table. |
03:43 | Click on row 2 column 1. |
03:47 | Pressing the Tab key helps to move forward from cell to cell. |
03:52 | Pressing Shift + Tab keys help to move backward from cell-to-cell. |
03:57 | In the last row, type PhD CSE in column 1 and 2015 in column 2. |
04:07 | Another important feature in tables is resizing rows and columns. |
04:13 | We can adjust the height and width of rows and columns in a table in several ways. |
04:21 | We can increase the column width manually by dragging the border with the cursor.
Likewise, we can decrease the width as well. |
04:32 | We can do the same with row height also. |
04:36 | Now place the cursor in column 2 of any row and click. |
04:42 | Then click on the Table menu in the Menu toolbar and on Size option. |
04:49 | Now select Minimize Column Width suboption. |
04:54 | The width of the column adjusts itself automatically. |
04:59 | It matches the width of the content of the cells in the selected column. |
05:04 | Next, let’s learn some cool tricks with tables. |
05:08 | I am going to use the Table hyphen demo dot odt file for this part of the demonstration. |
05:16 | Open the file Table hyphen demo dot odt which you downloaded earlier, in Writer. |
05:24 | Here I have a table with 2 columns and 5 rows. |
05:29 | To select an entire column, move the cursor to the top of a column of the table. |
05:35 | The cursor changes into a downward arrow. |
05:39 | Now click the left mouse button. The entire column is selected. |
05:45 | Let’s align the text to the centre by clicking on the Centre Align icon. |
05:51 | The entire text in this column gets centre-aligned. |
05:55 | Now click anywhere on the document to deselect. |
05:59 | Next, move the cursor towards the top left corner of the table. |
06:04 | The cursor changes into a downward slanting arrow. |
06:08 | Click the left mouse button.
The entire table gets selected. |
06:14 | Now click anywhere on the document to deselect. |
06:18 | Click inside any cell in the table. |
06:22 | This time select the entire table by clicking on the Select Table icon in the toolbar. |
06:29 | Click on the Table menu in the menu bar and select Properties. |
06:35 | Alternatively, click on the Table Properties icon in the table toolbar. |
06:41 | Either ways, the Table Properties dialog box opens.
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06:50 | On the extreme right, notice that the Alignment is set to Automatic. |
06:55 | First, let’s change this to Left. |
06:58 | On doing so, other disabled options in the dialog box get enabled. |
07:04 | Let’s name this table as MyTable1 and change the Width field to 12cm. |
07:12 | Click on the OK button at the bottom of the dialog box. |
07:17 | Observe the change in the size of the columns. |
07:21 | Once again, click inside any cell in the table. |
07:26 | Click on the Table Properties icon in the table toolbar once again. |
07:31 | Click on the Column tab. |
07:34 | Under Column Width section, we can see that only 1 and 2 are enabled.
This is because we have only 2 columns in our table. |
07:46 | Here, let’s change the value of column 2 to 10cm |
07:52 | Click on the checkbox for Adjust columns proportionally. |
07:57 | And press the OK button at the bottom right |
08:02 | Observe the change in the size of the column 2. |
08:06 | Click on the Select Table icon in the table toolbar. |
08:11 | Now, click on the Optimize Size icon in the table toolbar. |
08:16 | This is the shortcut icon to adjust width of rows and columns. |
08:21 | Select Distribute Columns Evenly option. |
08:25 | The columns are now of the same width. |
08:29 | We can also increase the column width manually by dragging the border with the cursor.
Likewise, we can decrease the width as well. |
08:40 | We can do the same with row height also. |
08:44 | Next, let’s learn how to work with cells in a table. |
08:49 | Click inside the cell in column 2 and row 3. |
08:54 | Now keeping the Shift and Ctrl keys pressed, hold the cursor over the left column border. |
09:01 | Then with the mouse, drag the border to the left, as demonstrated here.
The border of that particular cell moves! |
09:11 | Next, we will learn to split and merge cells. |
09:16 | Click inside the cell in column 2 and row 3. |
09:21 | In the table toolbar, click on the Split Cells icon. |
09:26 | A dialog box opens with some options. |
09:30 | In the Split cell into field, we will say 3. |
09:35 | In the Direction field, we’ll choose Vertically and click on the OK button. |
09:42 | The cell is split into 3 equal cells. |
09:46 | Now, let’s select the 3 cells and click on Merge Cells icon in the table toolbar.
The 3 cells get merged. |
09:56 | That’s how we split and merge cells in a table in Writer. |
10:01 | Once again, click inside the cell in column 2 and row 3. |
10:07 | We can even split the table into 2 by clicking on the Split Table icon in the table toolbar. |
10:14 | The dialog box that opens, shows some options. |
10:18 | Depending on what we choose, the table will be split accordingly. |
10:23 | First I will choose No heading and click on the OK button. |
10:28 | The table is split into 2 tables.
Press Ctrl + Z keys to undo this action. |
10:35 | Once again, click inside the cell in column 2 and row 3. |
10:41 | Click on the Split Table icon in the table toolbar. |
10:45 | I will choose the Copy heading option and click on the OK button. |
10:50 | The table is split into 2 tables with the same column headings. |
10:55 | Let’s learn about some more alignment options. |
10:59 | Before that, drag down the bottom row border of the second table’s heading row. |
11:05 | Select the entire header row as shown here. |
11:09 | Now, look at the alignment options for the cell, in the table toolbar. |
11:15 | Align Top is selected, by default. |
11:18 | Click on Align Bottom and Centre Vertically to see how the text gets aligned within the cell. |
11:25 | To give a background colour to a cell, first click within a cell. |
11:30 | In the table toolbar, click on the Table Cell Background Color icon. |
11:35 | Yellow is the default highlight colour. |
11:38 | To open the full color palette, click on the down-arrow of the icon.
Now we can choose other colors from here. |
11:48 | Next to Background Color icon, we see Autoformat Styles icon. |
11:54 | AutoFormat dialog box opens up. |
11:57 | We see varioustyles' here that we can apply to our table, if we want to. |
12:03 | Click on the Cancel button. |
12:06 | In the table toolbar, we see icons for choosing different
Borders, Border styles, Border colours. |
12:15 | And there are numerical formats shortcut icons, too, in the table toolbar. |
12:21 | Explore all these options on your own. |
12:24 | Save our file by pressing Ctrl + S keys.
And then close it by clicking on the X icon at the top right. |
12:32 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial |
12:36 | In this tutorial, we learnt to
Insert a table in a Writer document |
12:42 | Add and modify rows and columns |
12:46 | Adjust the table properties as per our preference |
12:50 | As an assignment
Open practice.odt. |
12:54 | Insert a table with 3 rows and 2 columns |
12:58 | Add the headings for the columns as Column One and Column Two |
13:03 | Add some text in all cells of the table
Save and close the file |
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13:36 | The script for this tutorial is contributed by Nancy Varkey from IIT Bombay.
This is Pratik Kamble from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |