A table is an editable grid for the parts of a diagram that are easier to read as rows and columns: a comparison, a schedule, a small data set, a legend. It lives on the canvas like any other element, so you can place, resize, recolour, lock and move it freely.
Adding one
Pick Table, then tap the canvas to drop a 3 × 3 grid with a header row, or drag to draw the same grid at the size you want.
Double-click any cell to type. Enter commits and moves down a row, and Tab moves to the next cell.
To bring a block of data in at once, copy cells from a spreadsheet and paste them into a cell you are editing: the table fills from that cell and grows to fit.
Editing the grid
- Select a cell with a click, then use the keyboard like a spreadsheet: arrow keys move the selection, Tab and Shift+Tab walk cells (Tab off the last cell adds a row), Enter or F2 edits, typing starts editing straight away, Backspace or Delete clears the cell, and Escape steps back to selecting the whole table. Shift-click more cells to style or clear several at once.
- Right-click a cell for its context menu: text styling and size, colours, alignment and clear apply to every selected cell; a link is set one cell at a time.
- Rows and columns: with the table selected, rest the pointer on a column or row and a small ⋯ appears just outside its top or left edge (on a touch screen they are always shown). Click it for Insert Left / Insert Right (or Above / Below for a row), Move Left / Move Right (Up / Down), and Delete Column (or Row). The + on the table's right edge offers Add Column, and the one on its bottom edge Add Row, each appending at that end.
- Sizing: rest the pointer on a divider for a moment and drag to set a column's width or a row's height; double-click a divider to clear its set size, so the column or row shares the space evenly again.
Picking a look
A table paints four surfaces (the cells, the grid lines, the header band and the header text) that only read well together, so the Presets in the Style section of its context menu offer eight complete looks rather than making you choose four colours. Four are built from your theme's accent, quiet to loud: Theme, Banded, Bold Head and Minimal. Four are neutrals that look the same whatever the theme: Plain, Paper, Slate and Inked. Hover a tile to preview it on the table, click to apply.
Zebra striping comes with the look, since it's part of the look. Which cells are headers doesn't: that's about your data, so a preset never re-reads your first row as a heading.
Pick a look and it stays your table's look: change the diagram's theme and a Banded table becomes the new theme's Banded, the same way a shape's preset moves with the theme. Set any of those colours by hand, or toggle the striping yourself, and the table keeps what you chose from then on.
The table is a real canvas element underneath, so its grid lines and text follow the active theme, and you can restyle, align and multi-select it alongside everything else. The Table section of its context menu toggles Header Row, Header Column and Zebra Striping; with both headers on, the corner cell is both.
Reach for a table when a cluster of shapes is really just rows and columns: a single grid stays tidier and is far quicker to edit.
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