Point - Tables in Point

Introduction

The enhanced table management feature in Point allows you to seamlessly create and manage tables within the WYSIWYG editor, enhancing your ability to position elements and maintain content layout.

Benefits

• Seamless Table Management: Easily add and remove columns and rows and edit text within cells, all within the WYSIWYG editor.

• Consistent Content Layout: Migrate/import content and contain its original table structure, ensuring that the look and feel remain consistent, providing a seamless transition and maintaining content integrity.

• Improved User Experience: By integrating robust table functionality directly into the editor, you can enjoy a more intuitive and efficient editing experience. The ability to work directly with tables in a visual manner enhances usability and productivity.

Adding tables in Point

There are two ways to add a table into Point.

Option 1 - Adding table manually

You can add tables by adding a text block in to your Point page and selecting Insert table from the options inside the text editor as seen below.

The new table element can be found here

If you wish to manually add content to your table, you can pre create your grid using this dynamic pop-up.

Once the table is in place, you can begin adding content into the table. 

Option 2 - Copy and paste table

There is a limited support to copy and paste tables from other sources. Depending on the source, the table may display in different ways. 

To copy/paste content into a table, follow these steps:

1. Create a new text block as above.
2. Clear out the placeholder text.
3. Mark and copy table data from your external source.
4. Paste into the empty text space.

Depending on your source, you will be asked to "clean" or "keep". 

• Clean: Remove formatting from the source and add just the values. 
• Keep: Keep the formatting from the source

We recommend using Clean as this will ensure a better compatibility.

Managing/Editing the table:

Once you have added the table, you will be provided with some editing options. All text may be edited using the normal text editing tool as seen below:

In addition, if you click inside a frame you will presented with the options seen below:

Row 1

• Add header
• Add/remove rows
• Add/remove columns
• Table style (show/hide border)
• Delete table

Row 2

• Merge/split cells
• Cell background colour
• Text vertical align
• Text horizontal align

You can hover over the borders to drag and drop, allowing you to rescale the columns and rows.

More information

• It is not possible to paste into a pre-created table. If you wish to import a table, copy the table and paste into an empty text box. You can style and add rows and columns to this table afterwards.
• It is recommended to import "clean" as certain table styling may cause issues.
• You can in most cases copy tables with formulas in them, but the paste will be the raw output.
• It is not recommended to copy and paste tables with embedded values from other sources as the tables might fail to read the correct values.
• Pasting from some sources may present the table without borders. Click inside a frame and you can enable the borders again.