If you're having trouble with Layout Mode in tables, and you'd rather do it all in Standard View, here's the old tables chapter from the Dreamweaver 3 Visual QuickStart Guide, all about tables before Layout Mode was added. All the information is still relevant, keeping in mind that the screen shots depict the Dreamweaver 3 Document window without new toolbars and so on.

Dreamweaver 3 Visual QuickStart Guide: Chapter 10: Working with Tables

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