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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

by Jim Elferdink
March 2008
Beginner
911 pages
29h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Table Menu

Word’s Table menu contains a variety of commands to help you draw the perfect table to hold your precious data.

Draw Table

Opens the “Tables and Borders” toolbar, which you can use to draw tables in your Word documents.

Insert

This menu has several options that let you take a little more conservative approach to table creation. It has six options:

  • Table. Opens the Insert Table window, where you can specify the size and characteristics of your new table.

  • Columns to the Left. Adds a column to the left of the insertion point in the currently active table. If you have more than one column selected, this command will insert the same number of columns to the left of the insertion point.

  • Columns to the Right. Adds a column to the right of the insertion point in the currently active table. If you have more than one column selected, this command will insert the same number of columns to the right of the insertion point.

  • Rows Above. Inserts a row above the insertion point in the currently active table. If you have more than one row selected, this command will insert the same number of rows above the insertion point.

  • Rows Below. Inserts a row below the insertion point in the currently active table. If you have more than one row selected, this command will insert the same number of rows below the insertion point.

  • Cells. Inserts the number of cells that you have selected into the currently active table. It also opens the Insert Cells window, where you can specify how things move around to make ...

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