for Questions or Comments. When finished, your footer will resemble Figure 6.18. Figure 6.18. Format the contents of the new table. [View full size image]   Working with Table Borders There are a couple different methods for adding borders to your tables, but none is more obvious than the Border text box option located in the Properties Inspector. Selecting a table and adding a value here creates a traditional, ordinary-looking border similar to Figure 6.19. Figure 6.19. Add a table border to your table. [View full size image]   You can even customize the color of the border by choosing a color from the Border color picker in the Properties Inspector, located below the Border text box option. We'll discuss a second, more flexible option later in the chapter. Converting Table Widths to Percent or Pixels Every now and then, you might have a need to convert an existing table created using pixels into a percentage value (or vice versa). For instance, our Footer table is displayed at the bottom of the page and has a fixed width of 250 pixels. Looking at the table and its width on the page, it appears to take up roughly 30% of the page. If I like this width, but prefer the width to be expressed in percentages as opposed to pixels, I can easily perform a conversion with a simple click of a button. To do this, I would simply select the table and choose the Convert Widths to Percent option available from the Modify, Table submenu. Although you won't notice a significant difference initially, the Table Widths Visual Aid does in fact display the table width as a percent followed by the pixel width within parenthesis. Just below that value is the width of the cell expressed as a percent, again followed by the pixel width in parentheses. NOTE Notice that the cell width (in pixels) displays at 230 pixels. Remember that we have a cell padding of 10 pixels on each side. Since this is the case, the 20 total pixels are deducted from the total size of the cell.   Of course, other options exist from the same menu including the ability to Convert Widths to Percent, Convert Heights to Pixels, Convert Heights to Percent. Furthermore, you can access these options directly from the Properties Inspector by clicking the icons located in the bottom-left corner of the Properties Inspector (refer back to Figure 6.8). Modifying Cell Properties Using the Properties Inspector As you've seen thus far, numerous options exist for modifying properties associated with a table. You've seen the basic properties that exist when a table is initially inserted from the Table dialog. You've also seen that by simply selecting a table, the Properties Inspector tailors itself to accommodate the modification of attributes associated with the table. Although many options exist for modifying properties associated with a table, so too do options for modifying the cells within that table. As a matter of fact, different properties exist for the table as opposed to cells within the table. Cells can be merged, split, vertically aligned, horizontally aligned, and so on. Also, content within cells can be formatted using the text formatting properties you learned about in Chapter 3. The content can also be aligned within the cells, prevented from wrapping within the cells, or even converted to a header. The table, on the other hand, doesn't support these properties (for instance, the content as a whole can't be formatted and cells can't be manipulated). In general, it's safe to say that the properties exposed by the table are broad and specific to the table as a whole while