Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Chapter 4. Working with Tables

Patrice-Anne Rutledge

In this chapter

• Understanding Tables 68

• Adding a Table 68

• Formatting a Table 69

• Drawing a Table 77

• Inserting an Excel Table 77

• Troubleshooting 78

• Design Corner: Improving Information Design Through the Use of Tables 78

Understanding Tables

A table is an object that conveys related information in columns and rows. If you’ve created tables in other applications, such as Word, you know how valuable they are for communicating information. Tables are also efficient and flexible. For example, rather than creating three separate bullet list slides, each listing the five most important features of your three main products, you could summarize all this information in a table on a single slide. You could still ...