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Half the battle in creating a logical, usable table is in the planning. What do you want to show in table form? What will your readers be looking for, and how can you best organize that data to help them find what they need? Here are some additional questions to ask as you're thinking out the table you're going to create:
Knowing ahead of time what you want to create helps you get a "big picture" of the resulting table. Throughout this chapter, you'll find the necessary procedures for creating tables with each of these characteristics.