How to Move Tables Up and Down in Dreamweaver
Adding tables to your Web pages with Adobe Dreamweaver can be an optimal way to corral information and present viewers with quick and easy reading, but once you've got the tables on your page, they're slightly harder to shift around than in other programs. Unlike desktop publishing software or graphics programs, you can't just click on a table in Dreamweaver and drag it -- the software doesn't offer a drag and drop capability. Instead, a slight workaround is required to move Dreamweaver tables up or down for the perfect page placement.
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Instructions
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Start Dreamweaver and click the name of the Web page with the table to move from the "Open a Recent Item" column on the Dreamweaver start screen. If the page wasn't one of your recent ones, click the "Open..." file folder, browse to the page and double-click it.
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Click the "Design" button near the top-left of the screen if the page is not showing design view -- you'll know if you see a bunch of HTML code instead of your table. Otherwise, skip this step.
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Scroll to the place on the page with the table to move. Click the cursor to the left of the table.
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Press the "Enter" key repeatedly to move the table down the page. Press the "Delete" or "Backspace" key to move the table up on the page.
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Tips & Warnings
Moving a table down the page will shift whatever text comes after it and leave white space between the table and what was originally above it. Moving the table up by pressing "Delete" or "Backspace" will close any gaps, but you'll need to take care not to delete any actual page text or elements. Another way to move a table, though less linear, is to click once on the table's border to highlight it, right-click and select "Cut" from the fly-out menu. Right-click the cursor to where you want the table to go on the page and select "Paste" from the fly-out menu. Then give the page a quick review to make sure the page elements did not get shuffled or auto-flow around the new table placement.
