Creating a Table

After you have some data in a worksheet range, you can designate that range as a table by selecting any cell within it and pressing Ctrl+T or Ctrl+L. That’s the easy way. If you want to work a little harder, you can click Table in the Tables group on the Insert tab. Either way, start by selecting a single cell anywhere in the table range before issuing the command. Excel figures out the dimensions of the table for you and asks for confirmation in the Create Table dialog box shown next.

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Unless the program has made some kind of mistake, you can click OK to create your table. If you select more than one cell but less than the entire ...

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