To show you how tables work in AutoCAD, I will make a sample table that contains the cost of some components of an assembly. We will not only modify the table, but also change the formatting of the text inside the table and the settings of the table. Let's start by making a simple table:

1. Erase all the tables you have in your drawing and then click on Table in the Annotation panel or use its command alias, TABLE.
2. Select the Specify window option from the Insertion behavior section of the Insert Table window.
3. In the Column & row settings section, set the values to 4 columns and 5 rows. The Column width and Row height options will be disabled in the Insert Table window as we can specify these values on the screen.
4. Select Title, Header, and Data for the options in the Set cell styles panel, respectively. After configuring these settings, my Insert Table window looked like this:

5. Once you are done configuring these settings, click OK to exit the Insert Table window.
6. Now, click on a point in the drawing area, and then click on another point toward the bottom right of the first point so that you end up with a table that looks like this:

As you can see, this table has four columns, five data rows, one header row, and another title row, so in total we have seven rows. Also, when you select the table, the cells at the top and the left are labeled with letters and numbers, respectively. So, we can use these letters and numbers to designate a cell. As an example, the cell situated in the bottom right of the preceding Figure 7.10 can be called D7 as it's in column D and row 7. In the next examples, we will use a similar cell-naming convention.