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Advanced Table Formatting Options
Advanced Table Formatting Options
A properly formatted table helps the reader absorb and understand the contents. You know
your table hasn’t been formatted well when a reader has to pull out a ruler to tell which
numbers belong on what rows.
Letting Word Do the Work with AutoFormat
Word provides more than three dozen AutoFormat options that give you a good start on
your way to table perfection. To use AutoFormatting, click once inside the table, and then
choose Table, Table AutoFormat. (You can also bring up the AutoFormat dialog box when
you create a table by choosing Table, Insert, Table.)
Table AutoFormatting comes ...