Creating and Editing Tables

Web page authors use tables in two ways:

• To display side-by-side information.

  From a simple phone list to a complex spreadsheet, inserting your data in tables with clearly labeled columns makes it easy for users to understand your information.

• To lay out your page.

  You can achieve many design effects on your page by first creating a table and then placing the contents of the page inside the table’s cells. Using tables, you can define mastheads, sidebars, captions, and use other common “desktop publishing” techniques.

  FrontPage comes with many built-in templates that use tables to lay out your page. When you create a new page, you can preview these templates in the New dialog box. By saving a table-based page as a template, you can store your own page design and use it to create other pages.