Chapter 8. Adding Tables
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating tables
Navigating tables
Entering table text
Insert and deleting table parts
Formatting tables
Come on over here, pull up a table, and join me in a rousing discussion of Word's table tools. Tables are one of Word's most flexible program features. Tables are widely used to give structure to all kinds of document types, including Web pages, reports, lists, and more. What's the big deal about tables, you may ask? Tables allow you to precisely control the positioning of text and other elements across a page. No other columnar tool does this. Everything you type into a table has its own spot and never encroaches into another cell unless you okay it. Because everything stays in its own cell, you can be sure it's going to look nice, neat, and confined. That's not to say tables are confining. They're anything but confining because of the flexibility they offer. This clearly defined structure, however, is something you can count on when laying out a page design.
In this chapter, you'll learn how to create tables of all types to hold all types of content. You'll find out how to create quick tables using the Elements Gallery, design your own table from scratch, edit tables, make them look extra pretty, and even perform a whiz-bang mathematical formula—that's right, Excel's not the only math wizard in this Office town.
Creating Tables
By their very nature, tables are rectangular in shape and appearance, even if you don't include any set borders to define ...
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