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Tables are a common way of displaying data. This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above).
Tables are a common way of displaying data. This tutorial provides a guide on making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. This tutorial will introduce the basics of inserting, editing and formatting tables of information.
For example, nested tables (tables inside tables) should be separated into distinct tables when possible. Here is a more advanced example, showing some more options available for making up tables. Users can play with these settings in their own table to see what effect they have.
To add a new, blank table, go to the Insert menu and select the "Table" option. Once you've chosen the number of rows and columns, it will be inserted into the article so that you can add in the contents for each cell. Pressing Tab ↹ will select the cell to the right. Pressing ↵ Enter will select the cell below.
Tables are a common way of displaying data. This tutorial provides a guide to making new tables and editing existing ones. For guidelines on when and how to use tables, see the Manual of Style. The easiest way to insert a new table is to use the editing toolbar that appears when you edit a page (see image above).
For copying web page tables that can't be copied directly into the visual editor (as described in the previous section): Try copying the table into Excel2Wiki. Click "convert". Copy and paste the table wikitext into the wikitext editor. Save. Do further editing in VE.
To edit the contents of an existing table in VisualEditor, simply double-click on a cell. You can then change the text, links and references, just like anywhere else in the article. To format a cell, just click once to select it.
More template styles for tables: {{sticky header}} - Makes column headers stick to the top of the page while scrolling through table data. {} - moves the sorting arrows under the headers. {{row hover highlight}} - adds row hover highlighting, and option for white background. {{static row numbers}} - adds a column of row numbers to a table.