Tables (WIP)

This section explains how to insert and customize think-cell tables in your presentation. By default, think-cell tables consist of grouped text boxes. Table cells that are text boxes resize automatically based on their contents. To learn how to insert, delete, duplicate, and move text boxes, see Text boxes. To learn more about the alignment behavior of text boxes, see Manually resize and lock the position of elements

Insert tables

To insert a table on your slide, select Insert > think-cell > Table .

In think-cell Suite, you can create tables directly from Excel, update tables with external data, and match table formatting to Excel. To learn more, see Create tables from Excel.

Add or delete table rows and columns

To add rows or columns to a table, follow these steps:

1. Select a row or column (see Select multiple objects). Arrows appear on each side of your selection.
2. Select the arrow on the side where you want to add the new row or column. Alternatively, select and hold Ctrl+Alt, then use the arrow keys to create rows or columns.

To delete table rows or columns, select the row or column, then select Del or Backspace. Alternatively, right-click the selection to open the context menu, then select Delete .

Resize tables

To resize a table, select the entire table, then follow these steps:

Hover over the edge of the table so that a thick orange highlight appears around the table, then click the table. A thick blue frame and resize handles appear around the table. To resize the table, drag the resize handles.

Format tables

To format a table, select the table cells that you want to format to open the mini toolbar. You can select individual cells, columns, rows, or the entire table (see Select objects). By default, the mini toolbar has the following formatting options:

• Font and font size (see Choose font and font size (TO DO))
• Font color (see Choose font color)
• Horizontal and vertical alignment (see Choose text alignment (TO DO))
• Text direction (see Choose text direction (TO DO))
• Vertical and horizontal stripes (see Apply alternating fills to rows or columns)
• Fill (see Fills)
• Cell content (see Choose cell content type)

You can apply paragraph formatting to text in tables with the built-in PowerPoint paragraph formatting options on the ribbon. To learn more, see Apply PowerPoint paragraph formatting (TO DO).

Depending on the cell content, other formatting options appear on the mini toolbar. For example, if a table cell contains a checkbox, checkbox formatting options appear on the mini toolbar (see Checkboxes).

Apply alternating fills to rows or columns

You can make your tables easier to scan by applying alternating fills to table rows or columns. To apply alternating fills to tables, follow these steps:

1. Select the cells that you want to apply alternating fills to.
2. On the mini toolbar, select Vertical Stripes or Horizontal Stripes .

After you apply alternating fills, on the mini toolbar, Stripe color 1 and Stripe color 2 menus replace the Fill menu . To customize the alternating fills, select the first and second fill that applies to your table on the Stripe color 1 and Stripe color 2 menus, respectively.

When you apply alternating fills, the first fill that applies to your table is the fill of the reference object in your selection. To add another object's fill as the first fill, select it as the reference object (see Select a reference object).

To remove alternating fills, select the table cells to open the mini toolbar, then select No Striping .

Choose cell content type

Instead of text boxes, table cells can contain other elements. To change a table cell's content type, select the cell to open its mini toolbar, then choose from the following options:

• Text Box
• Pentagon/Chevron
• Rounded Rectangle
• Harvey Ball
• Checkbox

Rounded rectangle

When you select or insert a rounded rectangle, you can start typing immediately and the text will appear inside the element with automatic line breaks.