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title: "Mergeable Subtables - Manage Layout"
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# Mergeable Subtables - Manage Layout

### **Mergeable Subtables - Manage Layout**

**Manage Document Package Template: Managing Layout (sub-tables)** The Manage Layout(s) screen allows users to specify the layout of fields for the sub table grid/table to be displayed on the document. ![Managing Subtable Layout ](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/1(413).png)

This screen has three major components: 1. **Drop Down Sub Table Selection**: The drop-down list of Sub-Tables/Grids 2. **Table-Fields List**: The List of all fields associated with the table selected from the drop-down list 3. **Selected Table-Fields**: The list of fields selected to be used on this sub table.

**Drop Down Sub Table Selection** This drop-down list populates the two list boxes based on the sub table selected.

![Subtable selection dropdown](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/2(150).png)

**Table-Fields List (Available to be Selected)** This list shows all the remaining fields associated with the sub table selected that can be selected or used. ![Available Fields List](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/3(109).png)

To select a field for use in the template, click the field’s name (it will highlight in blue) and either drag it to the **Selected Table-Fields** list or click the **right arrow** (pointing towards the **Selected Table-Fields** list).

![Right arrow to select fields](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/4(84).png)

**Selected Table-Fields** This list shows the assigned fields for the sub table. To begin managing a field from this list, click the field (it will highlight in blue).

![Selected fields](https://cdn.document360.io/e3626857-1fb5-4e27-b278-2d3fc5508be4/Images/Documentation/5(49).png)

The selected field can now be managed, re-ordered, or removed from the list.

- **Reordering:** To re-order the fields either click and drag the field to the position desired, or click the up and down arrows to the right of the list.

**Note:** The order of fields from top to bottom corresponds to the layout of the fields (from left to right) in the grid when the content is merged.

- **Removing:** To remove a field once it has been selected, click on the arrow pointing to the left in between the two lists.

**Note:** This will remove the field from the list of selected and place it back in the list of available fields (the left list).

- **Managing:** Once a field has been selected, it can be managed. Managing a field consists of two components, the Display Name and Auto Totaling.
- **Display Name:** This is the text that will appear at the top of this column in the table when it is merged onto a document.

**Note:** This text initially defaults to the **Display Name** of the Field.

- **Auto Totaling:** This check box denotes if the column should be auto totaled and have this total placed at the bottom of this column in the table when it is merged onto a document.

**Note:** This check box is only available for integer, decimal and currency field types.