Chapter 18 -- Organizing Concepts in Tables

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Chapter 18

Not everybody has an organized mind. Just look around your office—how many people do you know who have "a place for everything, and everything in its place"? For those times when words need to be organized into columns and rows, when concepts can be made clearer with comparison and contrast, Word's powerful table features really come in handy.

Word might surprise you with the flexibility it offers when it comes to creating tables. You can use the left-brained approach—planning your table, choosing the right number of columns and rows, and designing it to an exact specification—or you can use the right-brained approach—just click the Draw Table button on the Tables And Borders toolbar and draw what you want on the page.

Whichever table generation method suits your style best, Word complements the table-creating basics with a wealth of special table features. You'll be able to apply styles to give your tables a professional look; search for and sort table information according to your specifications; easily add, delete, and reorder rows and columns; drag table data; create your own custom styles; and much more. This chapter sprints you through the basics and spends some time on features you can use to really make your Word documents stand out.