North Dakota State University

1. Create a regular content element and open the Text tab
2. In the RTE, click the  button
3. In the Insert Table dialog, enter a Caption if desired. Do not enter a Summary due to a RTE bug that will prevent editing table properties
4. Adjust the table rows/columns counts, if desired
5. Other table properties will be set later
6. Click OK

A default table is created without alignment, borders, backgrounds, etc.

To add header row

1. Open the regular content element and click the Text tab
2. Click anywhere in the header row
3. Click the Row properties button 
4. Set Row group to Table header
5. Click OK
6. Save and publish the content element as usual

To set the table style (borders, header backgrounds, etc.)

1. Click anywhere in the table
2. Under the RTE edit box click table after Path: body >> table
   (the entire table will be selected)
3. From the Block style menu choose the desired table style
4. Click OK
5. Save and publish the content element as usual

Availability of styles may vary by site, just as the appearance of similarly-named styles may vary by site

1. In the RTE, click on the row/column to modify and then click
   Cell Properties to change one cell only,
   Row Properties to change the entire row, or
   Column Properties to change the entire column
   
2. Change the Row group/Type of cells of the column field to be Headers as appropriate
3. Click OK
4. Save and publish as normal

Example table with StripeRows2 and both row and column header cells in the NDSU Template:

Styles available in the RTE as of fall 2011 include

This is a mostly default table (Header cells on left)

Change header cells to left:

Top row as heading with stripeRows2

Left column as heading with stripeRows2

Left column as heading with left alignment

Multiple selections

All classes in the table are mutually exclusive. This means that for table-wide styling, you may choose only ONE of the following at a time

• border1
• stripeRows1
• stripeRows2