Placeholders come in different types, one of which is a table placeholder.Ī table placeholder behaves like other placeholders except it can only accept ThisĬan lead to a better looking presentation, with objects appearing inĪ consistent location from slide-to-slide. That placeholder when authoring a presentation based on that template. Of the presentation “template”, and to place a shape of your choosing into Inserting a table into a table placeholder ¶Ī placeholder allows you to specify the position and size of a shape as part Intuitively, the merge-origin cell “spans” spanned-cell A grid-cell other than the merge-origin cell that is “occupied” by a mergedĬell is called a spanned cell. Properties, and can be “unmerged” back to its underlying grid cells using The merged cell with its span_height and span_width In python-pptx a merge-origin cell can be identified with the TheĬontent of that cell is what appears on the slide content of any “spanned”Ĭells is hidden. merge-origin cell The top-left grid-cell in a merged cell has certain special behaviors. Spans the area formerly occupied by those individual cells. Grid, which may not conform to its visual location (or lack thereof) in theĪ cell can be “merged” with adjacent cells, horizontally, vertically, orīoth, causing the resulting cell to look and behave like a single cell that Access toĪ table cell in python-pptx is always via that cell’s coordinates in the cell The cell grid, but not change the number of cells in the grid. The presence of merged cells can obscure portions of InĪ three-by-three table there are nine grid cells, three in each row and table grid, also cell grid The underlying cells in a PowerPoint table are strictly regular. column A vertical sequence of cells spanning the height of the table, all sharing row A side-by-side sequence of cells running across the table, all sharing the I cannot hold images, other shapes, or other tables.Ī cell has a background fill, borders, margins, and several otherįormatting settings that can be customized on a cell-by-cell basis. cellĪn individual content “container” within a table. Numbers, but can also be used for blocks of text.
Orderly arrangement allows a reader to more easily make sense of relatively There are a few terms worth reviewing as a basis for understanding PowerPointĪ table is a matrix of cells arranged in aligned rows and columns.