The “Tables and Borders” toolbar

In “Word”, we use the “Tables and Borders” toolbar to create tables.
We open this toolbar by clicking on “View” (“View”) – “Toolbars” (“Toolbars”) in the menu bar and select “Tables and Borders” (“Tables and Borders”).

Create “Tables” and “Erasers”

We use the “Draw Table” button (“Draw Table”) from the “Tables and Borders” toolbar to draw tables in our “Word” “Document”.

We choose the “Eraser” (“Eraser”) and click on any line to remove it from our table.

Click the “Line style” button to change the style of the lines.
We click the “Line thickness” button, select an option, and click on a line to adjust the line width.
The same goes for the “Line color”, select the color first, then click on the line.
For the “Borders”, it is reversed, first select the cell (s) and click the “Borders” button where you make your choice.
To make a cell of a different color, place the cursor in the cell, and click the “Shadow color” button (“Shadow color”), in the “Tables and Borders” toolbar, where you choose a color.

Equal division of the columns and rows

For equal distribution of columns and / or rows, we select the “Columns” and / or “Rows”, and click the “Rows evenly” (“Distribute Rows evenly”) and / or “Columns evenly” (“Distribute Columns Evenly”) buttons.

Aligning text in cells

In order to align text in cells, we first select the cell (s) and click on the “Align” button.
Choose from the dropdown menu.

Sort “Tables”

A “Table” is only useful when the data in one or more columns can be sorted.
In “Word”, we can sort letters or numbers.
The reason is obvious.
When we have a hundred members, and we are looking for someone from Antwerp, we do not have to scroll through our entire list when it is sorted by the “City”column.

To sort, we click on “Table” (“Table”) – “Sort” (“Sort”) in the menu bar.
This opens the “Sort” (“Sort”) dialog box.

In the upper section of the “Sort by” (“Sort by”:) dialog, we select the field from the dropdown menu, we first select, the type that we want to sort (text, number or date), and we make the choice between “Descending” and “Ascending”.
If we wish to then have a second and / or third column to sort, we fill the boxes “Then by” (“Then by:”).

And in the lower section of the dialog box, we have the option, whether or not to be sorted by the first row.
Since the first row usually consists of column headings, this row, does not need to be sorted.
So we select “Header row” (Header row)
Result:

A quick way to sort by a column, use the “Sort Ascending” or “Sort Descending” options from the toolbar.
First place the cursor in the appropriate column and click on the button.

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