Tables: Easy Word Essentials, #4

Also by M.L. Humphrey

Easy Word Essentials

Text Formatting

Page Formatting

Lists

Tables

Track Changes

Word Essentials

Word for Beginners

Intermediate Word

Mail Merge

Mail Merge for Beginners

Tables

Easy Word Essentials 4

M.L. Humphrey

Contents

Introduction

Tables: Inserting

Tables: Structure

Tables: Formatting

Tables: Other

Conclusion

Appendix A: Basic Terminology

About the Author

Copyright

Introduction

In Word for Beginners I covered the basics of working in Word and in Intermediate Word I covered more intermediate-level topics. But I realized that some users will just want to know about a specific topic and not buy a guide that covers a variety of other topics that aren’t of interest to them.

So this series of guides is meant to address that need. Each guide in the series covers one specific topic such as formatting, tables, or track changes.

I’m going to assume in these guides that you have a basic understanding of how to navigate Word, although each guide does include an Appendix with a brief discussion of basic terminology to make sure that we’re on the same page.

The guides are written using Word 2013, which should be similar enough for most users of Word to follow, but anyone using a version of Word prior to Word 2007 probably won’t be able to use them effectively.

Also, keep in mind that the content in these guides is drawn from Word for Beginners and Intermediate Word, so if you think you’ll end up buying all of these guides you’re probably better off just buying Word for Beginners and Intermediate Word instead.

Having said all of that, let's talk tables.

Tables: Inserting

A table is essentially a grid of spaces. It can have a range of spaces across a row (one, two, three, four, five, etc.) and any number of rows you want. Tables are useful for providing a structure to information that you want to provide your reader. I find tables are the most granular way to control exactly where text appears on the page. (Which isn’t to say that