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Unit 3: Advanced Dreamweaver Features

Inserting Tabular Data

Data that has been created in another application (such as Microsoft Excel) and saved in a delimited format (separated by tabs, commas, colons, semicolons, or other delimiters) can be imported into Macromedia Dreamweaver and reformatted as a table.

To import tabular data:

1. Choose Insert >Table Objects>Import Tabular Data.The Insert Tabular Data dialog box appears.
   
   
   
2. In the Data File field, enter the name of the file to import.
        
3. From the Delimiter pop-up menu, select the delimiter format that matches the format of the document you're importing.  If you select Other, a field appears to the right of the pop-up menu. Enter the delimiter that was used to separate the table data.
   
   Note: If you do not select (or specify) the delimiter used when the file was saved, the file will not import properly, and your data will not be correctly formatted in a table. No error or warning message displays to alert that there is a problem.
        
4. For Table Width, select one of the following options:
   • Select Fit to Data to create a table that adjusts to the longest text string in each table column.
   • Select Set to specify a table width as a percentage of the browser window or as a number of pixels.
         
5. Select table formatting options
• In the Cell Padding field, specify the number of pixels between the cell content and the cell boundary (or wall).
• In the Cell Spacing field, specify the number of pixels between each table cell.
• In the Format Top Row field, select from four formatting options: no formatting, bold, italic, or bold italic.
• In the Border field, specify the pixel width of the table border. Enter "0" if you don't want a border.
       
6. Click OK. See below for an example of imported tabular data.

Owens	Rob	reowens@uncg.edu
Sugg	Reagan	crsugg@uncg.edu
Warfford	Anita	aawarffo@uncg.edu

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