A table can be added to the project in two ways; From the Project window, or
from the View window. From the Project window a table document is created by
double-clicking the Table icon or by choosing the Project-Add Table or Project-Add INSROP Table menu choice. An existing table document is opened by double-clicking a table
name in the list of table documents in the project. From the view, making the
theme active and choosing the Open table button in the view
A table document is only a viewer to the contents of a table file (dBase,
INFO, or Tab-delimited text file). It is possible in ArcView to edit elements in a
dBase table file and also to create a new table, but for all but minor edits a
spreadsheet (e.g. MS Excel) is must better suited for table editing.
Creating or opening a Table