Inserting columns and rows

 
To insert a column, such as phone number, place the cursor in the column where you want to insert a column, and click the button “Insert Right” or “Insert Left”.

The same for a row, only then choose “Insert Above” or “Insert Below”.
That is quite logical.
Do you want to add multiple columns or rows? Select the number of columns or rows, and click the buttons above.

To add a row you place the cursor in the last cell and you click the tab key on your keyboard.

Adjust column width and row height

The column width and height, can be modified in a variety of ways.
One way is by moving the mouse pointer on the border between two columns or rows, and when it changes into a two-headed arrow, click and drag until your desired width or height is reached.

A second way is by using the buttons “Table Row Height” and “Table Column Width “. For this, place the cursor in the cell where you want to adjust the row height or column width , and click the upward or downward pointing arrow.
Or manually enter a digit width/column height in the corresponding box.

And a third way is to make use of the button “AutoFit”.
When we click it we have three possibilities:
1: AutoFit content (adjusted to the content of the cells)
2: AutoFit Window (adjusted to the width of the window)
3: Fixed Column Width

Divide columns or rows evenly

To have the columns or rows divide evenly, we use the buttons “Distribute Rows” or “Distribute Columns” in the contextual tab “Layout” from the Table Tools.

Merge or split cells

To merge cells, select the cells you want to merge, and click the button “Merge Cells”, in the contextual tab “Layout” from the Table Tools.

To split a merged cell, select the merged cell and click the button “Split Cells”, in the contextual tab “Layout” from the Table Tools.
In the dialog window that appears, type in your cell number and/or columns.

You can merge cells as long as all cells are adjacent.

Alignment of cells

By default, the contents of a cell, are aligned horizontally and vertically at the top left.Depending on the width and height of the cell, this can be changed by clicking on the buttons for alignment, you will find in the tab “Layout” from the contextual tab “Table tools”.

To change the alignment, select the cell or cells and click the alignment button of your choice.

Text Direction Change

In Word, we have the possibility to change direction of the text.

To change the direction of the text, first select the text and click the button “Text Direction”.
This contextual tab you’ll find under the “Layout” for the Table Tools.
Whenever you click the button, the direction of the text changes.

Table Styles

By making use of “Table styles”, we can easily and quickly format our table.
The “Table Styles” option is found under the contextual tab “Design” in the “Table Tools”.
Click on the buttons “Up”, “Bottom”, and “More” to find the several available styles.
This option offers “Live Preview”.

Clicking on one style applies this style to our table.

Once a style is applied, you can turn various style options on or off by clicking the boxes for the “Table Style Options”.

Fieldrow names repeating

Depending on the table and the information in the table, it can happen that our table has several pages.
To identify what is in what column, we can repeat the title of the column on each page.
To do this, first select the top row or rows, and then click the “Repeat Header Rows” in the contextual tab “Layout” in the Table Tools.
This places the selected row (s) from your table, on top of each page.

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