Inserting Table

If you know how to add “Tables” to a “Word” document, its a quite easy to add a table to a publication in “Publisher”.  If you want to add a table, click on “Table” in the “Menu bar” and select “Insert”.  This opens the “Create Table” dialog box.

We specify the number of rows and columns at the top, and we can always make adjustments later, if we need some more or if we wish to remove some.
At the bottom, we have some “Table” formatting options.
At the right of the dialog box, we have a preview of the selected format on the left.

Enter the required settings and click OK.

This places the “Table” in the publication.
To move the “Table” to the right place, move the mouse pointer over the edge of the “Table”, and when it changes into a four-headed arrow, click and drag it to the desired position.
To change the dimensions of the “Table”, click and drag the dots at the edges of the selected “Table”.
Enter the data in the different cells.

Table Formatting

To format the “Table” and the data in the “Table”, we have a number of options, wherein one is easier than the other.
One option is the “Formatting toolbar”. For me, it is still the easiest, fastest and most comprehensive.

A second option is to click on “Table”, and select “Table AutoFormat” from the drop-down menu.
This opens the “AutoFormat” dialog box, which was already discussed earlier, but in addition to this, we now have the “Options” button.
When we click on it, some more options pop-up, depending on the layout of the “Table”, and we can enable or disable these options.

A third option is to right-click on the “Table”, either on a cell, row or column and select the “Format Table” option from the drop-down menu.

If you clicked on the “Table”, this change applies to the entire “Table”, and if you click on a cell, this change only applies to that particular cell, and the same goes for rows and columns.

To select a row, place the cursor in a cell, click on the “Table” tab in the menu bar and choose the “Select” ->”Row” option from the drop-down menu.
Do the same thing to select a column, except that you have to choose the “Select Column” option from the drop-down menu.

Whatever you’ve selected, a dialog box opens, with six tabs.

In the “Colors and Lines” tab, we modify the color and the edges of the selected change.

In the “Size” tab, we determine the size and scaling of the “Table”.
In the “Layout” tab, we determine the position of the “Table” in the publication, and wrapping of the text in the “Table” with respect to the text in the publication.  In the “Cell Properties” tab we determine the alignment of the text, and the margins of the text box.

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