Tutorial: Working with Tables and Tags

This tutorial demonstrates how to place object data into tables.

Each row in a table contains information about a single object component, such as a line or a curve. You can create tables for point, parcel, alignment, surface, pipe, and structure objects. However, only alignment and parcel tables can be created through Xref.

Some object label styles have two modes: label and tag. Label mode is the default label appearance when you annotate an object. Tag mode replaces the detailed label information with a short alphanumeric code so you can move the information into a table. Labels switch to tag mode automatically when a table is inserted into the drawing, using the style-based selection method.

The label styles for the following objects support tag mode: