Tables in main text

You can use tables within the main body of text.

Constructing in-text tables

To insert a table

  1. Position the cursor where you wish a table to appear

  2. Click the Table button.
    A table containing three rows and three columns will be inserted.    

To add rows or columns

  1. Right-click a table cell where you wish the new row or column to appear.       

  2. Choose either Insert Row Above, Insert Row Below, Insert Column To The Left, or Insert Column To The Right.

To remove rows or columns

  1. To remove multiple rows or columns, select a series of cells that span the rows or columns you wish to remove.

  2. Right click a cell in the rows or columns you wish to remove.  

  3. Choose Delete Rows or Delete Columns.

To merge cells

  1. Select the cells you wish to merge

  2. Right-click within the table and choose Merge Cells  

To split a merged cell

  1. Right-click a merged cell and choose Split Cells   

Formatting tables

In addition to the formatting that is available within all of the main text, tables have two further options: heading cells, and cell alignment.

To make a cell a heading

  1. Right-click the cell and choose Toggle Heading/Cell
    The heading formatting is applied to the cell.

You can specify the vertical and horizontal text alignment for each cell.  

Example: To set a row to be aligned bottom centre

  1. Select the cells in the row

  2. Right-click within the table and choose Alignment > Align Centre.

  3. Right-click within the table and choose Alignment > Align Bottom.

Width and height

You do not have to specify the width and height of tables or individual cells. Instead, cells (and thereby row, columns and tables) will expand automatically to fit the content.

Note: If a column is too wide, it is probably because one of its cells contains a long word. RevMan can only wrap the text in a cell when it contains a space.

Warning: Do not hyphenate words to adjust the column widths in RevMan; when  published, the tables are almost certain to have a different width than what you see in RevMan.