Microsoft Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 7. Creating Tables

Typewriters and old-fashioned word processors used tabs to align text and numbers in columns (Figure 7.1). You can still use tabs in Word, but you’re better off using Word’s tables, which make it easy both to align data in columns and rows and to format the table so that it looks professional (Figure 7.2). Tables are so useful in Word that we’re devoting an entire chapter to them.

Figure 7.1. Tabs used to align text in columns.

Figure 7.2. A professional-looking Word table.

Starting a Table

You can create the table structure ...