Intermediate Composer

Comparing Browsers

Using Tables

Graphics

Templates

Personalizing Composer

Targets

Forms

Teaching Guide

 

Intermediate Composer

Tables Challenge


Follow the following steps to create your table.
 

  1. Open a new page in Composer
  2. Click on the tables icon on the toolbar
  3. At the "New Tables" property box create a table with 3 rows and 2 columns
  4. Select "include caption" at the top of the table
  5. Make the border line width 4 pixels
  6. Choose ok
  7. Place the title of your table (The United States of America) at the top of the table
  8. Click inside the table and hold down the mouse to select "table properties" (right click on PC's)
  9. In the Row tab, select the "use color" in the "Row background" box
  10. Make the first row red
  11. Make the second row white by moving the cursor into the middle row and repeating the above steps
  12. Make the third row blue
  13. In the first cell place a hyper link to http://www.whitehouse.gov by placing the cursor in the cell and typing in the URL.  Then highlight the text and press the "link" icon on the toolbar.
  14. In the last cell take the picture of the flag and insert it into the table by clicking on the flag and pressing "copy", then "paste"
  15. Copy your table and paste it on the same page so you have two tables.  Do this by clicking in the table, then go to "edit" and "select table."  Next, press the "copy" icon on the toolbar.  Move the cursor to the location you wish to place your table and click on the icon that says "paste"
If you have followed the directions, your tables should look like the ones created below:
 
 
The United States of America
http://www.whitehouse.gov
The United States of America
http://www.whitehouse.gov

 
 
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