Editing Table Contents

Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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Centering Information in Table Cells
One of the most common ways to format information in a table is to apply some sort of alignment to the contents of table cells. If you need to center your information, you can do it both horizontally and vertically using the information in this tip.

Changing Table Cell Text Direction
When creating a table, you can turn the orientation of the text, within a cell, by ninety degrees in either direction from normal. It's easy to do using either dialog boxes or toolbars, as described in this tip.

Clearing the Contents of a Table
A simple tip for clearing out all of the contents of a Table.

Displaying Blanks when Summing to Zero
If you use fields to sum the information in your table columns, you might want to display a blank when the sum is zero. The easiest way to do this is by adding a couple of switches to your field codes.

Entering Tabs in a Table
When press the Tab key while entering info into a table, Word dutifully moves to the next table cell. If you don't want to do this, but instead want to add the Tab into a cell, you'll appreciate the techniques in this tip.

Filling Table Cells with a Macro
Want to stuff a value into each cell of a table? You can either type the value over and over and over again, or you can use the short macros described in this tip.

Moving Through a Table in a Macro
Do you need to step through a table, cell by cell, in a macro? It's easy to do using the Move method, as described in this tip.

Moving Through a Table in a WordBasic Macro
Do you need your WordBasic macro to step through the contents of a table? Use this technique.

Setting Table Values to Three Decimal Places
If you import information into a document from another program, the values you import may not be exactly to your liking. For instance, you might need to limit imported data to three decimal places. The best and fastest ways to perform this task are discussed in this tip.

Unwanted Numbering on Pasted Tables
When you copy information and then paste it into your document, you may get some things pasted that you didn't count on. There are a couple of things you can try to get rid of these unwanted artifacts of pasting, as described in this tip.