Table style (AskiaAnalyse)

To edit the appearance of your table in AskiaAnalyse, use the controls in the formatting toolbar:

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To change the appearance of a particular table element:

  1. Select the element in the element list, or simply click the element in the table. Note that the table element list allows you to select all elements in a particular category (e.g. all column titles).
  2. Use the formatting toolbar to change the font, font size, font emphasis (bold, italic or underline) of the element, as well as the text colour and background colour. See below for a description of these controls.
  3. Repeat this process for each table element you want to change.

The controls in the formatting toolbar are as follows:

Control Effect

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Element list

Allows you to select an element, or category of elements (e.g. all column titles) in the table. You can then use the other controls in the toolbar to change the appearance of the selected element/s.

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Font

Specifies the font to be used for the selected element.
Analyse_formatting_toolbar_font_size_list Font size Specifies the font size to be used for the selected element.
 Bold Toggles bold text on or off for the selected element.
 Italic Toggles italic text on or off for the selected element.
 Underline Toggles underlined text on or off for the selected element.
 Font colour Specifies the text colour to be used for the selected element.
 Background colour Specifies the background colour to be used for the selected element.
 Table format Opens the table formatting window, where you can apply an existing table layout to your table, or save your table layout for future use.

 

Applying table styles

You can select existing table layouts, or styles, and apply them to your table. The fonts, colours and border types used in the selected table style will be applied to your table. You can also create a new table style based on the layout of your table, which can then be applied to tables in future.

To open the table formatting window, which allows you to apply and save table styles, click table format  in the formatting toolbar when viewing a table. The table formatting window appears.

Control Effect
 New

Add a new table style to the library, based on the table appearance displayed in the preview. This means...

  • If you have not selected a library style from the drop-down list, this command creates a new style based on the appearance of your table.

  • If you have selected a library style from the drop-down list, this command effectively makes a copy of the selected library style.

To change the name of the new table style, simply click the name and type the new name.

 Save Save the new table style to the library.
 Delete Delete the selected table style from the library.

 

To determine which aspects of the selected library style will be applied to your table, use the apply options, as follows:

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