Formatting Financial Tables

Though all tables are, to an extent, used for laying out content on a page, tables used to organize text or data are different from layout tables in a few ways. Primarily, whereas content that you add to layout tables needs to fit the page layout you design, tables used to lay out text or data need to fit your content.

Most of what you need to know to effectively format financial tables has already been introduced in this chapter. In fact, formatting a financial table in Word is much the same as formatting the simplest of text tables. The only difference is that financial tables often have some specific formatting requirements that make them look more complicated than they actually are. Use the following best practices ...

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