Chapter 5. Building Tables and Charts


Chapter 5. Building Tables and Charts

Pages provides two special kinds of objects to add visual pizzazz to your documents and help you clearly communicate complex information: tables and charts. This chapter guides you through table and chart creation and formattingstarting with tables.

A table, also known as a matrix, is a rectangle containing rows and columns of cells . Each cell can contain a chunk of text or numbers . Pages can dress up tables or individual cells with borders and color or image fills for backgrounds. You can create very simple plain-text tablesas you might using just the tab key in a word processoror an elaborate construction filled with color and pictures that at first glance looks nothing like a table. Figure 5-1 shows a few examples.

Tables are a great way to clearly display a large amount of data, create forms, or quickly format a page full of pictures.



iWork '05. The Missing Manual
iWork 05: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 059610037X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 134
Authors: Jim Elferdink

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