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<LI><A NAME="tex2html997"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00910000000000000000">7.1 Editing Tables</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html998"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00911000000000000000">7.1.1 Definitions</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html999"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00912000000000000000">7.1.2 Selection Commands</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1000"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00913000000000000000">7.1.3 Editing Text</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1001"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00914000000000000000">7.1.4 Copying and Moving Text</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1002"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00915000000000000000">7.1.5 Cutting and Pasting Text</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1003"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00916000000000000000">7.1.6 Adding Rows and Columns</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1004"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00917000000000000000">7.1.7 Deleting Rows and Columns</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1005"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00918000000000000000">7.1.8 Moving Rows and Columns</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1006"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00919000000000000000">7.1.9 Sorting Rows and Columns</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1007"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION009110000000000000000">7.1.10 Resizing Rows and Columns</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1008"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION009111000000000000000">7.1.11 Undo and Redo</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1009"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION009112000000000000000">7.1.12 Changing Properties of a Table</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1010"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION009113000000000000000">7.1.13 Miscellaneous Commands</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1011"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00920000000000000000">7.2 The Generic Table Editor (TGT)</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1012"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00930000000000000000">7.3 The Transaction Decomposition Table Editor (TTDT)</A>
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00940000000000000000">7.4 The Transaction-Use Table Editor (TTUT)</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html1014"
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HREF="usersguidenode9.html#SECTION00950000000000000000">7.5 The Function-Entity type Table Editor (TFET)</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00900000000000000000"> </A> <A NAME="TableEditing"> </A>
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All TCM table editors are very similar. With each table editor
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you can create and manipulate textual tables, i.e. tables in which
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the cells are filled with a multi-line text string.
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The table editors offer a lot of layout facilities and TCM has
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special purpose table editors that have constraints built-in for a
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specific modeling technique. Furthermore, the tables that are made
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by TCM are kept graphically consistent and TCM keeps track of
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the contents of the tables, which is important when you
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have to do a lot of updates.
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7.1 Editing Tables</A>
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When you start up a table editor, or issue the New command in a table
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editor, a new table is created having N x M empty cells (by default,
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N = 7 and M = 7). New rows and columns of empty cells can be created
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with the Add Row and Add Column commands. Selected rows and columns can be
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deleted with the Delete Rows and Delete Columns commands. These commands
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can be issued from the Edit menu.
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If you start up a table editor from the <TT>tcm</TT> start-up tool,
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before the main window of the editor is displayed, a dialog window with
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a list of text fields is presented. This dialog has four fields:
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number of rows, number of columns, default row height and default
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column width. In these fields the default values are already filled
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in. You can change these values for the editor that will be launched.
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By default, the table is positioned on the drawing area having its top-left
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corner a little right below the top-left corner of the drawing area.
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You can reposition the entire table by means of the four arrow
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buttons in the bottom-left corner of the main window. Like the diagram editors,
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the page boundaries are displayed. If you print the table or save it as
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plain PostScript, the table is positioned on the printed page exactly as
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it is positioned on the drawing area (what you see is what you print).
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Each row and each column has a sequence number label. These labels are used
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to select an entire row or column or to move an entire row or column
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to a new position. These labels cannot be edited.
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In the View menu there is an option to hide the labels. In the
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Printer Options submenu of the Print menu you can choose to print these
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labels or not. See figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TableSnapShot">7.1</A> for a snap-shot of the table editor.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TableSnapShot"> </A><A NAME="7341"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.1:</STRONG>
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7.1.1 Definitions</A>
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We first give some definitions of the terms that are used in
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the rest of this chapter.
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The document that you edit is called a <B>table</B>.<A NAME="7347"> </A>
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A table contains a number of <B>cells</B><A NAME="7349"> </A> which are
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<I>invisible</I> rectangles.
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The table has a number of <B>rows</B><A NAME="7352"> </A> and a number
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of <B>columns</B><A NAME="7354"> </A>. Each cell is part of one row
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and of one column. All rows in the table have the same number
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of cells and all columns of a table have the same number of cells.
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All cells in a row have the same height and all cells in
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a column have the same width. All cells in a row have the same center
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y-coordinate and all cells in a column have the same center
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x-coordinate. All rows and columns are packed, i.e. rows and columns
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cannot overlap and the distance between two rows or two columns is
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zero when there are no other rows between them.
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Each row has a <B>row label</B><A NAME="7356"> </A> which is an uneditable
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label containing the row sequence number (rows are ordered according to
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their y-coordinates), positioned both near the left edge of the first cell
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of the row and near the right edge of the last cell of the row.
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Each column has a <B>column label</B><A NAME="7358"> </A> which is an
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uneditable label containing the column sequence number (columns are ordered according
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to their x-coordinates), both positioned above the first cell of the column
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and below the last cell of the column.
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Each border line between two cells is called a <B>line piece</B><A NAME="7360"> </A>.
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A line piece has a certain line style: solid, dashed, invisible and so on.
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So, line pieces are the items of a table that can be made visible and
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make the table appear like a grid. Line pieces are either horizontal or vertical.
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Horizontal line pieces are part of the same column as the neighboring cells and
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vertical line pieces are part of the same row as the neighboring cells.
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A cell itself is invisible, only its four border lines are possibly visible.
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A cell can contain some piece of <B>cell text</B><A NAME="7362"> </A>.
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Cell text is an editable multi-line text string. The cell text is
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positioned in the cell according to the <B>column alignment</B>,
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<B>row alignment</B>, <B>text margin width</B> and <B>text margin height</B>
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(which are all explained in the next sections).
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A cell can be selected. A selected cell has a rectangle drawn inside
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its four border lines.
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7.1.2 Selection Commands</A>
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A selected cell is highlighted by an extra black rectangle inside
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the cell boundaries (see figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TableSnapShot">7.1</A>).
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The distance between the selection rectangle and the line pieces
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is a pixel or two. Here is a list of all the table editor
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<LI><B>Select a single cell</B>.<A NAME="7371"> </A> Click button-1 on
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an unselected cell. This cell becomes the only selected cell of the table.
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<LI><B>Select an area of cells</B>.<A NAME="7373"> </A><A NAME="7374"> </A>
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Drag with button-2 pressed down. Note that by this command cells
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are <I>added</I> to the selection, never removed.
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<LI><B>Move the selection</B>.<A NAME="7377"> </A> With the four arrow
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keys on your keyboard you can move a single-cell or multiple-cell selection
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<LI><B>Select a row of cells</B>. Click button-1 on the row label.
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The cells in the row become the only selected cells in the table.<A NAME="7379"> </A>
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<LI><B>Select a column of cells</B>. Click button-1 on the column label.
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The cells in the column become the only selected cells in the table.<A NAME="7381"> </A>
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<LI><B>Select all cells</B>. Choose <B>Select All</B> from the Edit menu.<A NAME="7384"> </A>
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<LI><B>Add a cell to the selection</B>. Click button-2 on an unselected cell.<A NAME="7386"> </A>
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<LI><B>Add a row to the selection</B>.<A NAME="7388"> </A>
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Click button-2 on a row label. The row should have one or more unselected cells.
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<LI><B>Add a column to the selection</B>.<A NAME="7390"> </A>
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Click button-2 on a column label. The column should have one or more unselected cells.
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<LI><B>Remove a cell from the selection</B>. Click button-2 on a selected cell.<A NAME="7392"> </A>
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<LI><B>Remove a row from the selection</B>.<A NAME="7394"> </A>
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Click button-2 on a row label. All cells of the row should be selected.
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All cells of the row become unselected.
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<LI><B>Remove a column from the selection</B>.<A NAME="7396"> </A>
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Click button-2 on a column label. All cells of the column should be selected.
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All cells of the column become unselected.
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<LI><B>De-select all cells</B>. Click button-1 or button-2 somewhere outside
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the cells, in the drawing area.<A NAME="7398"> </A>
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<A NAME="7401"> </A><A NAME="7402"> </A>
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Text editing works the same for all document editors.
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See section <A HREF="usersguidenode4.html#EditingText">2.5.1</A>
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for the different edit commands and the two different edit modes,
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<B>in-line editing</B> and <B>out-line editing</B>.
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For going into edit mode in a table editor, you have to be sure
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that only a single cell is selected. When a single cell is selected
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and you type in characters or you click with button-1 on the cell
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then you enter edit mode. You leave edit mode when you either
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click Button-2 with the mouse pointer in any position or you click
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button-1 <I>outside</I> the cell that is being edited.
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When a cell text has been edited and the autoresizing<A NAME="7407"> </A>
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toggle is on, the cell sizes automatically adapt to the new
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text size. I.e. if the text is too high to fit into the cell, the cell,
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and consequently the entire row is made higher, and if the text is too wide
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to fit into the cell, the cell, and consequently the entire column,
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is made wider. If the cell text becomes less wide or high, and the autoresize
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toggle is on, then the row will be made less high, respectively,
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the column will be made less wide, down to the size that the other texts
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in that row or column still fit.
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The <B>default row height</B> and <B>default column width</B> is
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the cell height and cell width when the table is initialized.
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The default row height and column width of the table can be modified in
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the Default Properties submenu of the Properties menu.
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7.1.4 Copying and Moving Text</A>
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To <B>move a single cell text</B><A NAME="7412"> </A>
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from one cell to another, drag and drop it with button-1 from
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an <I>unselected</I> source cell
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to a destination cell (just like dragging an edge label in a diagram
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editor). The old text of the destination cell will be overwritten.
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If the text is dropped somewhere outside a cell or you click button-2 while
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dragging, the command will be aborted.
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<B>Copying a single cell text</B><A NAME="7415"> </A>
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from one cell to another works in the same manner as moving a text.
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The difference is that the source cell should be <I>selected</I>.
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When the autoresizing toggle is on, cell sizes automatically adapt
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to the new situation when text is copied or moved.
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7.1.5 Cutting and Pasting Text</A>
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The above method for moving or copying cell texts works only for
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one cell at the time. To perform this on a whole group of cell texts
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there are the Cut, Copy and Paste commands.
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To cut cell texts to the cell text <B>buffer</B>, use the<A NAME="7419"> </A>
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<B>Cut Texts </B><<B>Ctrl+X</B>> command in the Edit menu.
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It clears the texts of the selected cells and copies them into the buffer.
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Cut can also be a helpful command when you want to clear some part of the table.
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You can copy cell texts to the buffer via the <B>Copy Texts </B><<B>Ctrl+C</B>> command
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in the Edit menu. It copies the text into the buffer, but, unlike Cut, it does not
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clear the cells.<A NAME="7422"> </A><A NAME="7423"> </A><A NAME="7424"> </A>
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The cell texts in the buffer can be pasted into the table.
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The <B>Paste Texts </B><<B>Ctrl+Y</B>> command in the Edit menu makes a <B>paste box</B>,
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that is attached to the mouse pointer.<A NAME="7427"> </A>
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The size of the paste box is about the size of the cell texts
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in the buffer. You can move the paste box with the mouse and click button-1
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somewhere into the table to release it. The cell in which the mouse cursor
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(and the top-left of the paste box) was at the time you clicked button-1
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becomes the top-left cell of the cell area in which the texts are pasted.
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Which cell is pasted by which cell text is determined by the relative
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row and column position (not of the actual size of the texts) when the
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original texts were cut or copied into the paste buffer. When you paste,
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the texts from the buffer are <I>copied</I> from the buffer into the table.
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The old cell texts are overwritten. If the box is released with the mouse
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pointer somewhere out of the table, the paste command is aborted. If the
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paste box is released (partly) outside the table, only the part that
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covers the table is modified.
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7.1.6 Adding Rows and Columns</A>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="AddRowDialog"> </A><A NAME="7433"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.2:</STRONG>
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To add rows, use the <B>Add Rows</B><A NAME="7438"> </A>
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<A NAME="7439"> </A> command in the Edit menu. A
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prompt dialog is popped up asking for the number of rows to be
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added (default is 1). In the dialog there is a toggle to choose between
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adding the new rows above the selection or appending them to the bottom
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of the table. ``Above the selection'' means one row above the highest
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selected cell in the current selection, or when the selection is empty,
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to the bottom of the table.
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Adding columns, via the <B>Add Columns</B><A NAME="7441"> </A>
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<A NAME="7442"> </A> command, is like adding rows.
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There is a choice between adding the new columns to the left of the
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current selection or appending to the right of the table.
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After adding rows or columns the table is redrawn including the new
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rows and columns in such a way that the top-left corner of the table
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remains at the same position.
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7.1.7 Deleting Rows and Columns</A>
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To delete rows, use the <B>Delete Rows</B> command in the
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Edit menu.<A NAME="7445"> </A><A NAME="7446"> </A>
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This command deletes every row in which one or more cells are selected.
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To delete columns, use the <B>Delete Columns</B> command in the
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Edit menu.<A NAME="7448"> </A><A NAME="7449"> </A>
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This command deletes every column in which one or more cells are selected.
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To delete all cells, use the <B>Delete All</B> command.
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This results into an empty table <A NAME="tex2html132"
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Before everything is deleted, a question dialog asks if you are sure about
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To remove all unused rows and columns, use the <B>Purge</B>
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<A NAME="7453"> </A> command. This command deletes
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all rows and columns in which all cells have empty cell texts.
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When you delete rows and/or columns, the table is redrawn in such
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a way that the top-left corner stays at the same position.
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7.1.8 Moving Rows and Columns</A>
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<B>Moving a row</B> is possible via dragging a row label from the
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<A NAME="7456"> </A><A NAME="7457"> </A> source row to the desired
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destination row. If the dragged label is
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released in one of the cells of the destination row, the source row,
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where the label came from, is moved to the position of the
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destination row and the destination row and the rows between
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the source and destination row are all shifted one row up
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(when the source row was above the destination row) or one row down
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(when the source row was beneath the destination row) <A NAME="tex2html133"
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<B>Moving a column</B> works in a similar way.<A NAME="7460"> </A><A NAME="7461"> </A>
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If you drop a column label into a cell of another column, the source
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column moves to that position and the destination column and the
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columns between those two are all shifted one column left or right.
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Note that when you move a row or column, the row and column labels
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are not moved with. They stay in the same consecutive order, of course.
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After either command, the resulting table has the same position
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and has the same size.
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7.1.9 Sorting Rows and Columns</A>
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With the <B>Sort Rows</B> command in the Edit menu you can sort rows
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alphabetically.<A NAME="7464"> </A><A NAME="7465"> </A><A NAME="7466"> </A>
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When the selection is empty, the table is sorted according
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to the contents of the first column. If there are selected cells,
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sorting is according to the column of the left-most selected cell.
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With the <B>Sort Columns</B> command in the Edit menu you can sort
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columns<A NAME="7468"> </A><A NAME="7469"> </A>
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alphabetically. When the selection is empty, the table is sorted according
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to the contents of the first row. If there are selected cells,
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sorting is according to the row of the top-most selected cell.
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After either command, the resulting table has the same position
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7.1.10 Resizing Rows and Columns
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Resizing rows and columns can be done by hand
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but only when the autoresizing toggle is off.
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To resize a row or column, drag a line piece between two rows or
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columns: if you enter a line piece between two rows or
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between two columns, the mouse pointer turns into a pair of vertical
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respectively horizontal arrows.
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To <B>resize a row</B> you can drag the line piece with button-1 up or down.
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If you drop the line at a new position, the row <I>above</I> the dragged line,
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is resized. The part of the table below the row that is resized, will be repositioned
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To <B>resize a column</B> you can drag a line piece with button-1 left or
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right. If you drop the line at a new position, the column to the <I>left</I> of the
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line that is dragged, is resized.
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The part of the table to the right of the column that is resized,
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will be repositioned (but not resized).
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7.1.11 Undo and Redo</A>
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The table editors have a multiple-level undo for their commands.
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A command which is undone, can be redone again.<A NAME="7480"> </A><A NAME="7481"> </A>
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All table edit commands listed in the Edit and Properties menu can
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be undone. Furthermore, the table edit commands issued by the mouse
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can also be undone. In table <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TableCommands">7.3</A> all undo-able table
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editor commands are listed together with how they can be called.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TableCommands"> </A><A NAME="7486"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.3:</STRONG>
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All atomic table edit commands.</CAPTION>
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7.1.12 Changing Properties of a Table</A>
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The Properties menu<A NAME="7491"> </A> contains certain commands that
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change properties of cells and/or their texts.
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<LI><B>Update Line Style</B>.<A NAME="7494"> </A><A NAME="7495"> </A>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TableLineStyleDialog"> </A><A NAME="7499"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.4:</STRONG>
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Line style dialog.</CAPTION>
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The style of each line piece in the table can be set
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individually. The possible line styles are: solid (default),
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dashed, dotted, dual or invisible.
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When you call Update Line Style from the Properties menu, a pop-up dialog
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window is displayed, see figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TableLineStyleDialog">7.4</A>. The dialog
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window contains two list of toggles,
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the left one is for the different line styles and the right one
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for specifying which lines you want to update. The possible updates are:
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<LI><B>Update Top Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on the top of
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a selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7506"> </A>
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<LI><B>Update Bottom Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on the bottom of
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a selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7508"> </A>
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<LI><B>Update Left Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on the left
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of a selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7510"> </A>
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<LI><B>Update Right Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on the right
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of a selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7512"> </A>
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<LI><B>Update Surrounding Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on
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exactly one selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7514"> </A>
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<LI><B>Update All Four Sides</B>. Each line piece that borders on
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a selected cell is updated.<A NAME="7516"> </A>
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Update line style is an undo-able command.
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The entry <B>Default Line Style</B><A NAME="7519"> </A>
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in the Default Properties submenu pops up a dialog window to
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set the default line style. Each newly created line piece will have
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this line style. It contains toggles with the possible values solid,
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dashed, dotted, dual and invisible.
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<LI><B>Update Line Width</B>.<A NAME="7521"> </A><A NAME="7522"> </A>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TableLineWidthDialog"> </A><A NAME="7526"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.5:</STRONG>
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Line width dialog.</CAPTION>
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The width of each line piece in the table can be set
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individually. The line width ranges from 1 till 6.
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When you call Update Line Width from the Properties menu, a pop-up dialog
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window is displayed, see figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TableLineWidthDialog">7.5</A>. The dialog
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window contains two list of toggles, the left one is for the line widths
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and the right one for specifying which lines you want to update.
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This works the same as specifying of which lines you want to change
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the line style as described in the previous item.
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The entry <B>Default Line Width</B><A NAME="7532"> </A>
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in the Default Properties submenu pops up a dialog window to
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set the default line width. Each newly created line piece will have
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<LI><B>Update Text Font</B>.<A NAME="7534"> </A><A NAME="7535"> </A>
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This entry pops up a dialog window in which you can select a text font.
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of the attributes font family, font style and point size.
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For each of the three attributes there is a list of toggle buttons.
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Also, each list of toggle buttons in the dialog has an extra check
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button called <TT>update</TT> <I>attribute</I> that indicates whether
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that font particular attribute should be updated or not.
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This makes it possible, for instance, to only change point sizes
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or font families of some cell texts but to keep the other font
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The dialog also shows a preview of some text in the selected font
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so you can see how it will look in your diagram.
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When you press the <TT>Apply</TT>-button the dialog is dismissed and
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of each selected shape the font is updated to the selected font.
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Update font is an undo-able command.
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With the <B>Default Text Font</B> entry<A NAME="7540"> </A>
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<A NAME="7541"> </A>
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from the Default Properties submenu you get a similar dialog window.
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Here you can set the default text font. Each new text (i.e. text entered
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in an empty cell) will get this font. The row and column sequence labels
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and the page headers and numbers are also drawn in this default font.
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<LI><B>Update Row Alignment</B>.<A NAME="7543"> </A><A NAME="7544"> </A><A NAME="7545"> </A>
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The <B>row alignment</B> determines if a text is positioned
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near the top, center or bottom of the cell. All cells in a row
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have the same row alignment. To change the row alignment of one
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or more rows, this entry pops up a dialog window showing toggles
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with the three possible alignment types: Top, Center and Bottom.
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If you select one of these, and press <TT>Apply</TT>, the alignment of all rows
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in which one more cells are selected, is changed to this new alignment.
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Update row alignment is an undo-able command.
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The default row alignment can be set via <B>Default Row Alignment</B>
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entry from the Default Properties submenu.<A NAME="7549"> </A>
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When a new row is created, it will have a certain text alignment (top, center
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or bottom) which is visible when the row contains one or more cell texts. You
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can set the default row alignment with a similar pop-up window as Update
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Row Alignment. When you change the default row alignment, all new rows
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receive this alignment as well as all the rows that contain no cell texts.
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<LI><B>Update Column Alignment</B>.<A NAME="7551"> </A><A NAME="7552"> </A><A NAME="7553"> </A>
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The <B>column alignment</B> determines if a text is positioned
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near the left, center or right of the cell. All cells in a column
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have the same column alignment. To change the column alignment
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of one or more columns, this entry pops up a dialog window showing toggles
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with the three possible alignment types: Left, Center and Right.
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If you select one of these, and press <TT>Apply</TT>, the alignment of
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all columns in which one more cells are selected, is changed
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to this new alignment. Update column alignment is an undo-able command.
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The default column alignment can be changed via the entry
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<B>Default Column Alignment</B> from the Default Properties
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submenu,<A NAME="7557"> </A> similar to how you
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change the default row alignment.
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<LI><B>Set/Unset Text Underlining</B>
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<A NAME="7559"> </A><A NAME="7560"> </A>
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This option sets/unsets (toggles) the text underlining of the selected
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The following default table properties can be set via the Default
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Properties submenu of the Properties menu:
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<LI><B>Text Margin Width</B>.<A NAME="7564"> </A><A NAME="7565"> </A>
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All cells of a table have the same <B>margin width</B> which is the
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minimal distance between the cell texts and the vertical lines
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of the table. You can update this distance via the entry
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Text Margin Width of the Default Properties submenu and a slider pop-up
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dialog is displayed. If, after the update, some of the texts do not fit
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into their cells and the autoresizing toggle is on, these cells are resized.
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<LI><B>Text Margin Height</B>.<A NAME="7568"> </A><A NAME="7569"> </A>
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All cells have the same <B>margin height</B> which is the minimal distance
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between the cell texts and the horizontal lines of the table.
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You can update this distance via the entry Text Margin Height of the
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Default Properties submenu and a slider pop-up dialog is displayed.
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If, after the update, some of the texts do not fit into
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their cells and the autoresizing toggle is on, these cells are resized.
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<LI><B>Default Row Height</B>.<A NAME="7572"> </A>
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All rows have at least this height. Every new row that is created
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has this height and if you resize a row by hand (when
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autoresizing is off), you cannot make the row less high then this
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height. This entry pops-up a slider dialog for inspecting and updating
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the default row height. Furthermore, when the autoresize toggle is on,
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autoresizing is applied to the rows.
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<LI><B>Default Column Width</B>.<A NAME="7574"> </A>
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All columns have at least this width. Every new column that is created
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has this width and if you resize a column by hand (when
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autoresizing is off), you cannot make the column less wide then this
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width. This entry pops-up a slider dialog for inspecting and updating
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the default column width. Furthermore, when the autoresize toggle is on,
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autoresizing is applied to the columns.
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<LI><B>Default Number of Rows</B>.<A NAME="7576"> </A>
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When a new table is created on start-up or by the New command or when
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the table was empty and the first column is created, the table
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will have a default number of rows. You can inspect
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and update this number via a pop-up slider dialog called from this menu entry.
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<LI><B>Default Number of Columns</B>.<A NAME="7578"> </A>
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When a new table is created on start-up or by the New command or when
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the table was empty and the first row is created, the table will have a
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default number of columns. You can inspect
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and update this number via a pop-up slider dialog called from this menu entry.
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION009113000000000000000">
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7.1.13 Miscellaneous Commands</A>
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<LI>The <B>Cell annotation</B> command from the properties
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menu pops up a text edit dialog<A NAME="7583"> </A>
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in which you can type arbitrary text to annotate a cell
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in the table. See section <A HREF="usersguidenode4.html#TextEditDialog">2.5</A> for using the
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<LI><B>Find</B>.<A NAME="7586"> </A>
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With the Find menu entry in the Search menu you call
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a dialog by which you can search for some text in the table.
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The find dialog is described in section <A HREF="usersguidenode4.html#TextEditor">2.5.3</A>.
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From this dialog you can <B>find the next text</B> or
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<B>find all texts</B> that matches the string to find.
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In the first case the first cell that is found is
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selected and the scrollbars of the main window are moved to
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center the cell in the main window. When you click <TT>Find Next</TT>
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again, the next cell is selected (top down, from left to right).
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When you choose <TT>Find All</TT>, all cells that contain a string
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that matches is selected. The find dialog contains two toggles,
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one to determine that the matching has to be case sensitive (default off)
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and the other to determine that a substring of the cell has to
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<LI><B>Replace</B>.<A NAME="7593"> </A>
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With the <B>Replace</B> menu entry in the Search menu you call
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a dialog by which you can replace texts in the table.
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The replace dialog is described in section <A HREF="usersguidenode4.html#TextEditor">2.5.3</A>.
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It has a find next command that works the same as in the
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find dialog. Furthermore, the replace dialog has a <B>replace next</B>
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and a <B>replace all</B> button. Replace next means that in the next
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cell (the cell that is found with find next) the text
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strings that match are substituted with the string to replace
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(that is the second string filled in in the dialog).
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In the case of replace all this happens to the entire table in
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one command (global substitution).
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Note that find and replace work on entire cells. But keep in mind that in a
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cell, the cell text could match the string to find or the string to replace
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multiple times (at least when you search a substring). When you want to
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find and replace within a single cell, you should load that text label first in
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the out-line text editor and then do find and replace within the out-line edit
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00920000000000000000"> </A>
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<A NAME="7600"> </A><A NAME="7601"> </A><A NAME="7602"> </A>
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7.2 The Generic Table Editor (TGT)
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This editor has exactly the features described in the previous section.
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The contents of the cells are unrestricted.
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In the remaining sections the specific table editors
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are described. These work almost the same as the generic editor.
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The table editors are able to read in each others tables (although
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a warning message is given when you do this).
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00930000000000000000"> </A>
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<A NAME="7604"> </A>
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<A NAME="7605"> </A>
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<A NAME="7606"> </A>
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7.3 The Transaction Decomposition Table Editor (TTDT)
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According to this modeling technique, the entries in row 0 contain
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transaction names. The entries in column 0 contain object class (or
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entity type) names. The other entries contain zero or more action names.
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To graphically separate row 0 and column 0 from the rest of the
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table, the initial table separates them by default by a dual line.
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The editor does not check for that layout, however.
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For an example see figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TDTExample">7.7</A>.
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Currently, the editor checks the constraints in figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TDConstraints">7.6</A>.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TDConstraints"> </A><A NAME="7612"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.6:</STRONG>
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Immediately checked and soft constraints on TDTs.</CAPTION>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TDTExample"> </A><A NAME="7619"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.7:</STRONG>
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Example transaction decomposition table.</CAPTION>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00940000000000000000"> </A>
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<A NAME="7624"> </A>
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<A NAME="7625"> </A>
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<A NAME="7626"> </A>
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7.4 The Transaction-Use Table Editor (TTUT)
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According to this modeling technique,
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this table has five columns. The entries in row 0 are initialized with
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the labels <TT>Create</TT>, <TT>Read</TT>, <TT>Update</TT> and <TT>Delete</TT>.
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The entries in column 0 contain transaction names.
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The other entries contain zero or more object class (or entity type)
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names. To graphically separate row 0 and column 0 from the rest of the
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table, the initial table separates them by a dual line.
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The editor does not check for that layout, however.
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For an example see figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TUTExample">7.8</A>.
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The editor checks the immediately and soft constraints of
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figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#TUConstraints">7.9</A>.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TUTExample"> </A><A NAME="7636"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.8:</STRONG>
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Example transaction-use table.</CAPTION>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="TUConstraints"> </A><A NAME="7643"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.9:</STRONG>
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Immediately checked and soft constraints on TUTs.</CAPTION>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00950000000000000000"> </A>
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<A NAME="7648"> </A>
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<A NAME="7649"> </A>
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<A NAME="7650"> </A>
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7.5 The Function-Entity type Table Editor (TFET)
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This kind of the table is also called <I>Function-Entity Matrix</I>
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HREF="usersguidenode14.html#Wieringa96-01">22</A>].
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According to this modeling technique, the entries in row 0 contain transaction names.
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The entries in column 0 contain object class (or entity type) names.
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The other entries contain <B>CRUD</B> strings:<A NAME="7654"> </A>
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a string containing zero or one occurrences of the
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characters C, R, U and D, and that does not contain any other
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character. To separate row 0 and column 0 from the rest,
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the initial table separates them from the rest by a dual line.
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The editor does not check for that layout, however.
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HREF="usersguidenode14.html#Wieringa96-01">22</A>] it is shown how you can define
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<B>business areas</B><A NAME="7657"> </A>
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in a function-entity type table. To draw business areas in TFET you
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could use the Update Line Width from the Properties menu.
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See figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#FETExample">7.11</A> for an example table.
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Currently, the editor checks the constraints in figure <A HREF="usersguidenode9.html#FEConstraints">7.10</A>.
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="FEConstraints"> </A><A NAME="7663"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.10:</STRONG>
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Immediately checked and soft constraints on FETs.</CAPTION>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER">
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<!-- MATH: $\includegraphics{p/FEconstraints.eps}$ -->
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SRC="usersguideimg170.gif"
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ALT="\includegraphics{p/FEconstraints.eps}"></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="FETExample"> </A><A NAME="7670"> </A>
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<CAPTION><STRONG>Figure 7.11:</STRONG>
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Example function-entity type table partitioned into business areas.</CAPTION>
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<DIV ALIGN="CENTER">
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<!-- MATH: $\includegraphics{p/fet_example.eps}$ -->
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