Design Tables That Look Like Your Brand
Tables in the document editor used to look generic, and the column widths you set in the editor didn't always come through in the PDF, print preview, or the email a client received. This update gives you a full table-design panel and makes the styling travel reliably to every email, print or pdf format.
Some Examples of what you can do
Here's the same document showing five different combinations: a rounded branded summary table, a minimal no-border table, soft zebra row table for account balances, a mixed border emphasis table that uses only a header underline, and a narrow dashed action list. Al five are in one document, all five will show the same way in PDF and email.
Why It Matters
Tables that match your brand — Choose a ready style or build your own with per-side borders, custom colors, and rounded corners. Your deliverables stop looking like generic word processor output.
Column widths that survive the export — Set a column to 25% in the editor and it stays 25% in the PDF, the print preview, and the email — even in Outlook desktop.
Less fiddling, more shipping — Ready styles let you start from a polished baseline instead of building every table from scratch. Bulk Apply means you change padding, borders, and column width in one click instead of three.
Comfortable defaults — New tables now have breathing-room padding out of the box, so you only reach for the panel when you want a specific look.
How to: Open the Table Options Panel
Click into any cell of a table. A small chevron appears at the top of the cell — click it to open the Table options panel. The panel has five tabs: Styles, Borders, Cell, Size, and Table. Make changes across as many tabs as you like, then click Apply to commit them all at once.
Start From a Ready Style
The Styles tab gives you a gallery of complete table looks — Rounded branded summary, Minimal no-border table, Soft zebra rows, and more. Each preset sets borders, padding, header treatment, and zebra striping in one click. Pick the closest match, then customize from there.
Control Borders on Each Side
The Borders tab lets you toggle the Top, Right, Bottom, and Left border of selected cells independently. For each side you can set the width (1px through 5px), the style (Solid, Dashed, or Dotted), and the color. Use this for clean header underlines, dashed action-item rows, or whatever emphasis the section needs.
Style the Cell Itself
The Cell tab handles the inside of the cell. Pick a Cell background color (great for highlighting headers or status columns), set the Cell text color, and choose an Inner spacing preset — None, Small, Medium, or Large. The new default padding is comfortable, so text no longer butts up against the borders.
Set Column Widths and Row Heights
The Size tab is where column proportions get locked in. Column width offers Auto plus presets from 10% to 80% — pick any value and the column resizes to that fraction of the table. Row height offers Auto, Short, Medium, and Tall; the height acts as a minimum, so longer content always fits.
Setting widths as percentages is what makes them carry through to PDF, print, and email — the export now writes a true column definition into the HTML, which every major email client (including Outlook desktop) honors.
Shape the Whole Table
The Table tab applies to the table as a whole. Table layout controls how wide the table is on the page (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%) and how it's aligned (left, center, right). Rounded corners softens the table outline — pick Square for a hard edge or 2px through 10px for progressively rounder corners.
