To create a table using a spreadsheet frame:

1. If you don't see the tool panel to the left of your document, choose Show Tools from the Window menu.
2. Select the Spreadsheet tool and drag the pointer to create a spreadsheet frame.
3. Click a cell in the spreadsheet and type your table entries.

Press Tab or Return to go to the next cell (Tab moves one cell to the right, Return moves one cell down)
4. Choose Window --> Open Frame to work on the spreadsheet in its “own window.” While you have the frame window open, you can choose Format --> Document to set the amount of Rows and Columns
5. Some ways to format your table:

Choose Options --> Display to turn off Row and Column headers, or to display solid lines or no lines.

More formatting techniques:

When you finish your table, you can cut and paste it back into your word processing document as an “in line” graphic, so that it moves with other text when you add or delete text ahead of it. You can resize, delete, or edit the text in the pasted table. (You can also choose “Open Frame” and work on the table while it is embedded!)

To paste a table into text:

1. Select the spreadsheet frame and choose Cut from the Edit menu.
2. Click the spot in your text where you want to put the table.
   It's best to paste the table on a blank line. Press Return to create a new line.
3. Choose Paste from the Edit menu.
   The large insertion point blinking next to the pasted table indicates that the table is part of the paragraph.
4. Use the alignment controls and the indent markers on the text ruler to position the table.

Create custom tables with a few clicks:

Select Make Table and answer the questions to create an embedded table. Use the techniques listed above for table entries and formatting.
 

Convert “tabbed text” to a table with one click!

Follow these helpful hints:

1. Be sure to set custom tabs before you begin.
   (for tips on setting tabs, link  to: Setting Tabs and Indents in AppleWorks 5.0,
   http://www6.district125.k12.il.us/staffdev/tutorial/tabs.html)
2. Type your entries and highlight the tabbed text.
3. Click the shortcut button and you get an instant table!

From this:
12345    Jones    Michael
12346    Smith    Jane

To this:

Open the table frame and format to your heart’s desire!

Little known fact:
Do you create web pages? Embedded tables translate into HTML tables with the Save as... HTML converter. For more information on HTML conversion from AppleWorks, link to Converting Word Processing to HTML (Web Pages) at: http://www6.district125.k12.il.us/staffdev/tutorial/convert.html

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