3. Set Proximity

The next step to creating your table plan is to decide who should sit near (or not near) whom.

Click on the Set proximity button in the Task tool bar. Look at the Proximity pane:

The means that these guests should be placed next to each other. The means that these guests should be placed near to each other, either next to or on the same table, but lower priority than .

Let us assume you have been asked not to seat Jason and Natasha next to each other. Click on the cell where the column for Jason and the row for Natasha intersect. Pull down the drop-down list and select not next to.

Click on any other cell or press the Enter key to confirm the change. Notice that the corresponding row for Jason and column for Natasha changes to keep the table symmetric.

The proximity will become important when we start assigning guests to seats.

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