11	Working with Tables
This chapter contains the following topics:
Creating and Editing Tables.
Table Creation Commands.
Table Creation Procedures.
Creating and Editing Tables
Kurzweil 1000 provides a full set of table creation and editing functions. You can create tables and modify them, using typical editing functions. You can also convert blocks of text into a table and conversely, turn a table into text.
Table Creation Commands
All table selection, conversion, and editing functions are accessible from the Table submenu available from the Edit menu. Pressing ALT+E, then B opens the Table submenu. On that submenu, you’ll find the following items: 
Insert a Table (mnemonic I). This opens a dialog box that contains two text boxes in which you specify the number of columns and rows you want for the table. 
By default, Kurzweil 1000 creates a five-column, two-row table. The new table is as wide as the page and all the columns have equal widths. Each row is the default line height, but automatically resizes as you enter contents into the cells.
Insert a Row Above (mnemonic A) followed by Insert a Row Below (mnemonic B). Creates a new row above or below the row in which your cursor is located. The new row contains the same number of cells and is the same height as the current row. The cells are empty, and upon insertion, your cursor is located in the first cell.
Insert a Column to the Left (mnemonic L) followed by Insert a Column to the Right (mnemonic R). Creates a new column to the left or right of your current cursor location. The new column contains the same number of cells as the current column. The width of all the columns changes to accommodate the new column, while maintaining equal widths. The cells are empty, and upon insertion, your cursor is located in the topmost cell in the column.
Delete Entire Row (mnemonic O) followed by Delete Entire Column (mnemonic C). Deletes the row or column in which your cursor is currently located. Upon deletion of a row, your cursor is located in the first cell of the next row. Upon deletion of a column, your cursor is located in the topmost cell of the next column.
Delete Entire Table (mnemonic D). Deletes the entire table.
Convert to Table (mnemonic T). Converts fully selected paragraphs into a table. Go to the procedure, To convert to table, for details on converting paragraphs into a table.
Convert to Text (mnemonic V). Converts the table, in which your cursor is located, into a series of paragraphs. Each paragraph contains blocks of text with tabs for columns.
Select Entire Table (mnemonic S). Selects the table in which your cursor is located. Once selected, you can Cut or Copy and Paste it.
You can use Undo or CONTROL+Z to undo a table editing operation.
Note: You can search for tables in a document by choosing Find from the Edit menu (ALT+E, then F), and choosing Tables from the Find dialog’s Format list box.
Changing Table Settings
There are also settings that you can change for various aspects of a table. You can use the Format Paragraph dialog box (ALT+E, then O, then P), from the Edit menu, to make the following changes:
Auto Size Enabled or Disabled for automatic sizing of the row in which your cursor is currently located. When Auto Size is set to Enabled, the row height grows or shrinks depending upon the space requirements of the contents in the cells in the row. 
Height, in inches or centimeters, for the row in which your cursor is currently located. To use this setting, you must first select Disabled for Auto Size. If you have Auto Size Enabled, this text box is read-only, that is, you won’t be able to type anything in it.
Cell Width, in inches or centimeters, of the cell in which your cursor is currently located. When you press ENTER for this dialog box after making a change to Cell Width, Kurzweil 1000 asks if you want to apply the change to the width of the entire column or just to the current cell.
Alignment for the text in the current cell. Select Left, Right, Center or Justified.
Table Creation Procedures
To create a table:
1.	In the document, navigate to where you want to insert the table.
2.	Select Table from the Edit menu, or press ALT+E, then B.
3.	Choose Insert a Table from the Table submenu, or press its mnemonic I.
This opens a dialog box. Your cursor is in the Columns text box.
4.	Type the desired number of columns for your table.
5.	TAB to go to the Row text box and then type the desired number of rows.
6.	Press ENTER.
Kurzweil 1000 creates the new table and your cursor is in the first cell of the table.
7.	Use the arrow keys to move around in a cell, and the ENTER key to add lines within a cell.
8.	To navigate from cell to cell, use the TAB key.
Kurzweil 1000 announces the location of your cursor in the table whenever you move around. For a detailed list of commands that you can use to move around in a table, refer to Reading Tables in Chapter 3, Reading.
To convert text to a table:
1.	In the text version, be sure each row that you want for the resulting table is a separate paragraph, that is, at the end of the text that you want to designate as a row, there is a hard return and Kurzweil 1000 indicates there is a “new line.”
2.	Also in the text, be sure to indicate a column by inserting a tab character. Do this for each paragraph. In addition, ensure that each paragraph has the same number of tab characters, as these will enable Kurzweil 1000 to create columns. So, for instance, if you want the table to have three columns, each paragraph in the text version should have two tabs between three blocks of text.
3.	Select all the paragraphs you want to include in the table by placing the cursor at the beginning of the selection and holding down the SHIFT key and using the RIGHT and or DOWN arrow keys until you reach the end of the selection. Be sure to get the last line of the selection.
4.	From the Edit menu, select Table, then choose Convert to Table (ALT+E, then B, then T).
Kurzweil 1000 creates and announces a new table, and places the cursor in the first cell in the table. The table contains as many rows and columns as there were paragraphs and tab characters in the text version. It is as wide as the page, with columns of equal width, and the height of all the rows are set for auto sizing.
To convert a table to text:
1.	Move the cursor to any cell in the table you want to convert to text.
2.	From the Edit menu choose Table, then choose Convert to Text (ALT+E+B+V).
Kurzweil 1000 converts the table to text.