This section just shows that you're currently in a cell. If you had a table Row selected, This would also reflect that. This allows you to see exactly what you're going to be applying any formatting to.

The two small icons in the bottom of this section are the Merge Cells and Break Cell buttons. You must highlight more than one cell to use the Merge Cell button.

Click your mouse to go to the Font Property Inspector. Everything on the top half of this inspector is covered on that page.

These boxes determine the cell alignment, both horizontally and vertically. If you select an entire row or column, it will change the alignment for every cell highlighted.

These two boxes allow you to set the cell's height and width. The cell will be set to the number of pixels entered into the box. Be careful though, Netscape<6 is problematic when it comes to recognizing cell heights. Spacers are the most reliable way to guarantee exact cell height.

The No Wrap check box, adds the nowrap attribute to your table cell, which will prevent text from wrapping to the next line once it hits the edge of the cell.

The Header check box changes your <td> tag to a <th> tag, making it part of your table header.

This box allows you to set a background image for your table cell. You can use the target and browse functions just like in the Default Text PI.

Be careful if you have a table with only one column. You may think you have the cell selected, when you actually have the row selected. Netscape<6 won't show backgrounds for an entire row.

These two boxes allow you to set the cell background color and cell border color, respectively. The same cautions apply as the background image. Make sure you have the cells correctly selected. You can view the Default Text PI for an example of the color picker.

This box shows you that you have a table selected, and also allows you to name the table (for referencing the table in JavaScript).

This allows you to change the number of rows or columns in your table. Be careful about reducing the number. If you have content in column 4, and you change the number top 3, everything in that column will be removed, without warning (remember you can hit Alt+Z to undo).

Here you can set the size of your table. You can choose % or pixels from the drop down. Choose % in order to create a flexible layout. Remember that Netscape does not always follow your height settings, so use spacers if you need to.

Setting the Cell Padding, Spacing and Border size is done with these text boxes. You can also set the alignment, just as you would with an image.

These are four of the most useful functions around. From the top left they are:

Remove table (and cell) heights, remove table (and cell) widths, convert table widths to pixels and convert table widths to percentages.

The image and color pickers work the same for the table, as they do for the table cells. This sets the color and image options for the entire table (but Netscape will mess up the background image).