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Click “Use current” from the Table Locator Properties dialog box to insert the
selected document as a sample document.
Once a method is selected, the corresponding tabs on the Table Locator Properties
dialog box become available:
• With automatic mode selected, only the Settings and Test Results tabs are
enabled.
• With manual mode selected, all the tabs are enabled. for the Master Item and
Cells tabs are used to define the line item, optional rows, and the data cells.
A row is a single text line on a document whereas a line item in a table can span
several rows.
Comparing the Methods
The following table gives an overview of the features available for automatic mode
compared to manual mode.
Table 4-1. Features for the Automatic respectively Manual Mode
Feature Automatic Manual
Works on unknown table structures Yes No
Tables that are neither invoices nor orders No Yes
Multi-row line items Yes Yes
Data of one line item in different rows Yes Yes
Overlapping columns Yes Yes
Multi-row cells No Yes
Optional rows Yes Yes
Optional cells Yes Yes
Comments Yes Yes
Intermediate headers Yes Yes
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