TABLE — Insert Table

Creates an empty table or one with the data of a CSV file.

• Command: TABLE · Global name: _TABLE · Alias: TB
• Ribbon: Home › Annotation
• Ribbon: Annotate › Tables
• Menu: Draw

Inserts a table: empty, to type in its cells, or filled with the data of a CSV file or of pasted text. The table is an AutoCAD TABLE object, with title, header and data rows according to its style.

Usage

1. Enter TABLE (or TB) or click Insert Table on the ribbon. The Insert Table dialog box opens.
2. Choose the style, where the data comes from and the size, and click OK.
3. Specify the insertion point (the upper-left corner) or, with Specify window, the two corners.

Specify insertion point:

4. In an empty table you start typing in the first cell: Tab moves to the next cell, Shift+Tab to the previous one and the Up and Down arrows to another row. OK finishes.

Insert Table

• Table style:: the table style (TABLESTYLE).
• Insert options: Start from empty table, From a CSV file: (type the path or click Browse…) or From pasted text (CSV). In the last two the first row is the header and the columns take the width of their contents.
• Insertion behavior: Specify insertion point or Specify window. With a window, the columns share the width and as many data rows as fit in the height are created.
• Column & row settings (empty table only): Columns:, Column width:, Data rows: and Row height (lines):.
• Set cell styles: the style of the First row cell style: and the Second row cell style: (Title, Header or Data).

Command line

While the dialog box is open you can type the same options; Enter accepts.

Table options [Columns/Rows/Width/Height/Style/WIndow/CSV] <OK>:

Columns (C), Rows (R), Width (W), Height (H), Style (S), WIndow (WI, toggles point and window) and CSV (CSV, path of the file).

Formulas

Contents starting with = are a formula: =Sum(A3:A5), =Average(B3:B6), =Count(A3:C5), =A3*B3+1. Columns are letters and rows are numbers, as in a spreadsheet. A formula that cannot be calculated shows ####.

See also

TABLEDIT · TABLECELL · TABLESTYLE · TABLEEXPORT · Tables