2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Tables

It’s about time that the table feature in PowerPoint 2007 was updated! In fact, Microsoft has updated the feature throughout the Microsoft Office system to make using tables in Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 much easier. In the following sections, we’ll cover the most common aspects of using tables: adding a new one to your presentation, drawing your own table, copying a table from Word 2007 or Excel 2007, inserting a spreadsheet directly from Excel 2007, and applying and changing table styles.

Adding a New Table to Your Presentation

The most common way to add a table to your presentation is to use the standard options provided by PowerPoint 2007. You can easily make theme changes to a table created in this manner.

To add a table, ...