Microsoft Word 1F: Advanced Tables

Advanced Tables :

• The following is an example of an advanced table

• Another example in which tables are used is for calendars as shown below:

Drawing a Table

• You use the Draw Table (pencil tool) to create a square the size of your table
• Then use the Draw Table (pencil tool) to draw various lines where you want them as shown below

Erasing lines

• Use the Eraser tool to erase lines as shown below

Merging

• Instead of erasing lines you may also highlight two cells that are to be merged and then right-mouse click and select merge cells

Splitting

• Instead of drawing a horizontal or vertical line to split a cell you can highlight cells then right-mouse click and select split

Borders on Cells

• You may right mouse-click on the Borders and Shading tool to create background colors and change various aspects of the borders to individual cells or the table as a whole

Alignment

• The text or images placed in cell can be right aligned, centered or left aligned or justified as regular text, it may also appear at the top, middle or bottom of the cell
• In the Anita's Store example above the "Sleeveless T's" is aligned in the middle of the cell and centered, while the product names appear in the top of the cell and are right aligned.
  • The sizes L, M and S are also top aligned however they are centered.
  • The stock on hand column has a total which appears at the bottom of the cell (right aligned)
• To change the alignment of a cell, right-mouse click it and select cell allignment

Distribute

• You can use the Distribute Rows Evenly (or Columns) after selecting the various cells to make your cells equal in size.

Inserting Rows and Columns

• To insert rows or columns right-mouse click in a cell then select one of the options (Columns to Right, Columns to Left, Rows....etc.)

Autosum Tool

• The Autosum Tool will add all numbers in cells above the currently hightlighted cell, however be careful as it does not work like a spreadsheet. If you change or add a number in the cells after using the Autosum tool the total will not be updated automatically
• You can however insert a Microsoft Excel worksheet into a Word document and it will appear as a table as shown below (the example even includes a chart made in Excel based on the data)

• To insert a Microsoft Excel worksheet, select the Insert tab, then press the Object button droplist and select Create from File....
• You can open the above file to see how a linked Excel worksheet works InventoryBreakdown

Table Autoformat

• The table below was created using different background colors
• When inserting images (like the soccer ball) simply copy and paste the images, do not use the text wrapping like you did for the other assignments.

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