Adding tables to lesson pages

If you want to customize a table, you can select a table, column, row, cell or selection of cells, and then do any of the following:

  • Move the table

  • Change line type, fill, and text properties

  • Change line type

  • Resize the table, a column or a row

  • Insert or remove columns, rows or cells

  • Split or merge cells

  • Delete the table

To insert a table using the Table button

  1. Select Table.

    A grid appears.

  2. Move the pointer over the grid to select the number of columns and rows that you want in the table.

    Note 

    The cells of the grid correspond to the cells of your table.

    Tip 

    The grid displays eight rows and eight columns by default. You can add rows by moving the pointer past the bottom row. Similarly, you can add columns by moving the pointer past the right row.

    If you’re using a mouse, click and hold the left mouse button while moving the pointer.

  3. Tap the screen or click your mouse.

    The table appears on the page.

To insert a table using the Insert Table dialog

  1. Select InsertTable.

    The Insert Table dialog appears.

  2. Type the number of rows and columns in the boxes.

  3. Optionally, select Make cells square to make the table cells square.

  4. Optionally, select Remember dimensions for new tables to use the current table dimensions for all future tables that you create in SMART Notebook software.

  5. Select OK.

    The table appears on the page.

To draw a table

  1. Select Pens .

  2. Select Pen Types, and then select Pen or Calligraphic Pen.

  3. Select a line type.

  4. Draw a table on the screen.

    Tip 

    Make the lines of the table as straight as possible and connect the corners.

  5. Select Select.

  6. Select your drawing.

  7. Select the menu arrow, and then select Recognize Table.

    If SMART Notebook software recognizes your drawing as a table, it removes your drawing and adds a table to the page.

You can select a table, column, row, cell or selection of cells. After you select a table or part of a table, you can do the following:

  • Move the table

  • Change the table’s or cells’ properties

  • Resize the table, columns or rows

  • Add or remove columns, rows or cells

  • Split or merge cells

  • Delete the table

To select a table

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select outside, but near to, a corner of the table, and then drag to the opposite corner.

    Note 

    Don’t start dragging from inside the table. If you do, you select a table cell instead of the table.

To select a column

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select inside the column’s top cell, and then drag to the bottom cell.

To select a row

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select inside the row’s leftmost cell, and then drag to the rightmost cell.

To select a cell

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select inside the cell.

To select multiple cells

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select inside the top and leftmost cell, and then drag to the bottom and rightmost cell.

    Note 

    If you select multiple cells and drag them to a different position on the page, you create a new table consisting of the selected cells and their contents.

If you want to customize a table, you can add columns or rows.

To add a column

  1. Select a column.

  2. Select the column’s menu arrow, and then select Insert Column.

    A new column appears to the right of the current column.

To remove a column

  1. Select the column.

  2. Select the column’s menu arrow, and then select Delete Column.

To add a row

  1. Select a row.

  2. Select the row’s menu arrow, and then select Insert Row.

    A new row appears below the current row.

To remove a row

  1. Select the row.

  2. Select the row’s menu arrow, and then select Delete Row.

To remove a cell

  1. Select the cell.

  2. Select the cell’s menu arrow, and then select Delete Cells.

    Note 

    • Removing a cell deletes the contents of the cell.

    • You’re unable to remove a cell if it provides the only connection between two halves of a table.

If you want to customize a table, you can resize the table, a column or a row.

To resize a table

  1. Select the table.

  2. Select the table’s resize handle (the gray circle), and then drag it to increase or reduce the size of the table.

To resize a column

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select the vertical border to the right of the column.

    A resize pointer appears.

  3. Drag the vertical border to resize the column.

To resize a row

  1. Select Select.

  2. Select the horizontal border below the row.

    A resize pointer appears.

  3. Drag the horizontal border to resize the row.

To resize all cells in a table

  1. Select the table.

  2. Select the table’s menu arrow, and then select Adjust size.

  3. Select one of the following options:

    • Make same height to make all cells in the table the same height.

    • Make same width to make all cells in the table the same width.

    • Make same size to make all cells in the table the same height and width.

    • Make cells square to make all cells in the table square.

After you insert a table on a page, you can insert objects into the table’s cells.

Note 

You can add only one object to each cell. If you want to add multiple objects to a cell, do one of the following:

  • Group the objects before adding them to the table (see Grouping objects).

  • Select all of the objects at once, and then add them to the table as described in the following procedure. SMART Notebook software automatically groups the objects in the table cell.

To add an object to a table

  1. Select the object.

  2. Drag the object to the table cell.

    Note 

    You’re unable to move an object if it’s locked in place.

    The object appears in the table cell.

    Note 

    If you add a text object to a table, the cell resizes to fit to the text object. If you add other object types to the table, the object resizes to fit the cell.

To remove an object from a table

  1. Select the object.

  2. Drag the object out of the table.

  1. Select the table, and then drag it to a different position on the page.

    OR

    Select all of the table’s cells, and then drag the cells to a different position on the page.

You can use the Properties tab to change the table’s properties, including its transparency, cell color and line color.

To change a table’s fill

  1. Select a table, column, row, cell or selection of cells.

  2. Select the table’s, column’s, row’s or cell’s menu arrow, and then select Properties.

  3. Select Fill Effects.

  4. Select a fill style:

    Fill style

    Procedure

    None (transparent)

    1. Select No fill.

    Solid color

    1. Select Solid fill.

    2. Do one of the following:

      • Select one of the 40 colors in the palette.

      • Tap More, and then select a color in the dialog box.

      • Tap the eyedropper, and then select a color on the screen.

    Gradient of two colors

    1. Select Gradient fill.

    2. For each color, do one of the following:

      • Select one of the 40 colors in the palette.

      • Tap More, and then select a color in the dialog box.

      • Tap the eyedropper, and then select a color on the screen.

    3. Select an option in the Style drop-down list.

    Pattern

    1. Select Pattern fill.

    2. Select a pattern.

    3. Tap Foreground color, select a color in the dialog box, and then press OK.

    4. Tap Background color, select a color in the dialog box, and then press OK.

    Picture

    1. Select Image fill.

    2. Tap Browse.

      A dialog box appears.

    3. Browse to and select the picture you want to use as a background, and then press Open.

      Note 

      If you insert a large picture, a dialog box may appear and prompt you to either reduce the picture's file size or retain the picture's file size. For more information, see Setting image preferences to reduce file size.

    4. Select Keep image size to keep the picture's size, regardless of whether the picture is larger or smaller than the object.

      OR

      Select Scale image to fit to resize the picture to fit the object.

  5. Optionally, drag the Object transparency slider to the right to make the table transparent.

To change a table’s line style

  1. Select a table.

    Note 

    You can only change the line style of an entire table, not individual cells, columns or rows.

  2. Select the table’s, column’s, row’s or cell’s menu arrow, and then select Properties.

  3. Select Line Style.

  4. Change the table’s line style.

To change a table’s text style

  1. Select a table, column, row, cell or selection of cells.

  2. Select the table’s, column’s, row’s or cell’s menu arrow, and then select Properties.

  3. Select Text Style.

  4. Change the table’s text style (see Formatting text).

You can add tables to your page and insert objects into the table’s cells. If you want to customize a table, you can split or merge cells.

To split a cell

  1. Select the cell.

  2. Select the cell’s menu arrow, and then select Split.

  3. Select an option to split the cell into multiple rows and/or columns.

    Note 

    If you split a cell that contains content, the content appears in the upper-left cell after the split.

To merge cells

  1. Select the cells.

  2. Select the cells’ menu arrow, and then select Merge Cells.

    Note 

    If you merge cells that contain content, the merged cell contains the contents of the top-left cell. If the top-left cell is empty, the merged cell contains the contents of the next available non-empty cell, moving from left to right, top to bottom.

You can delete the contents of a table or the table itself.

Note 

You can delete all objects on a page, including tables, by clearing the page (see Clearing pages).

To delete the contents of a table

  1. Select the cells containing the content you want to delete.

  2. Select Delete.

To delete a table

  1. Select the table.

  2. Select the table’s menu arrow, and then select Delete.

SMART Notebook automatically adds adding to cells in tables. Complete the following procedure to remove cell padding from tables.

Note 

Changing this setting only affects your copy of SMART Notebook. If you open the file in SMART Notebook on a different computer, you will need to adjust your preferences again.

To remove cell padding from tables

  1. Select EditPreferences (for Windows operating systems). The SMART Notebook Preferences dialog appears. For macOS operating systems, select NotebookPreferences. A dialog appears.

  2. Click Defaults.

  3. Clear the Add cell padding to table cells check box.

  4. Click OK.

  5. Close and restart SMART Notebook software.

    New and existing tables in your .notebook files display without cell padding.