Appendix B Generating Documents Using FrameMaker
© National Instruments Corporation B-9 DocumentIt User Guide
Putting Information in Table Format
1. Page through the document to ensure it meets your needs. If you have
information that you want in table format, complete the following
steps, beginning with stepa. If you have no tables, skip to step 2.
a. Select all the data you want to include in the table, but do not
include the last paragraph symbol in the last row of table data.
Refer to FigureB-3 for an example of exactly what information
you need to select for reformatting.
Figure B-3. Marking Data for Table Formatting
b. From the pull-down menu, select Table»Convert to Table. When
the Convert to Table dialog appears, leave the settings intact and
click OK.
c. From the pull-down menu, select Table»Resize Columns. When
the Resize Columns dialog appears, click By Scaling to Widths
Totalling. Change the value to 6.25 inches, and click OK. Make
sure that the whole table is selected when you do this. At this point
you can resize individual columns if necessary.
You can also click and drag to highlight one or more table
columns. Click to grab the left column handles, and pull out or
push in to resize the column.
Do not include last
paragraph symbol
Table Data
of table data