You want to define line types for your template or table to specify the number and size of the cells of a line.

You created a table or template node in the navigation tree.

This procedure describes how to define line types graphically. However, you can also enter values and measurement units in the Details settings to define line types (see: Describing the Table Layout). To undo the last change in the Table Painter, choose Undo in the application toolbar.

1. On your table or template node go to the Table or Template tab. In the Table Painter, already one line type exists whose width corresponds to the window width. The width in the design area of the Table Painter is the same as the window width.
2. To draw lines and columns, click . The mouse pointer then looks like a pencil when moving in the design area.



To temporarily deactivate existing boxes and shading, deactivate Display Box/Shading ( ).

3. Start by creating lines for the line types you need:

• Create new blank lines (line types that consist of only one cell). To do this, position the mouse pointer on an exisiting line and choose from the context menu Insert ® New Blank Line Below or Insert ® New Blank Line Above. For the template node, a new line with the same height as the clicked line is inserted.
• Split an existing line type. To do this, click with the pencil at the position at which you want to horizontally split the line and keep the left mouse button depressed. Then pull the dotted line to the right until the Table Painter automatically aligns the line with the line width (To cancel this operation, pull the pencil diagonally and release the mouse button). You can also use the context menu function Split ® Line. For a template, the line is split at the selected position; for a table a new line type is inserted below the clicked line.
• Copy or move existing line types. To do this, position the mouse pointer on an existing line type and use the context menu functions Copy Line or Cut Line. Then click the line before or after which you want to insert the line type and use the context menu functions Insert Line Below or Insert Line Above.

When you define line types for templates, what you see in the Table Painter is what you get as output (without cell contents). To copy a sample, you can even display a background picture in the Table Painter.

For templates, you do not only create line types in the Table Painter, but also specify the sequence in which they are used and how often they are used. To do this, the context menu offers two functions:

• Use the Interval menu to Increase, Decrease or individually Set the interval, in which you use a line type. Intervals correspond to the entries in the From and To columns of the Details settings. The Table Painter shows the interval in the line type as a number in brackets, indicating its size.
• Use the Set... function of the Reference menu to refer to an existing line type. The Table Painter displays the name of the line type to which you refer underneath the name of the line type in which you make the reference. To delete the reference and get your own line type back, containing a blank line, choose Reference ® Delete. To convert the reference into a copy of the line type to which you refer, choose Reference ® Dissolve.

You defined line types for structuring your table or template (see Printing Tables or Printing Templates). You can now set boxes and shadings for your line types or specify your output for the template or table (see Displaying Contents in Cells or Specifying Table Output).