Topic: Formatting Tables

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Adding Diagonal Borders Want a border to go diagonally through a table cell? Here's how to do it. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Adding Gridlines to a Table You can easily add borders to your table cells. This tip shows you how. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Adjusting Table Row Height When working with tables, you can adjust the height of individual rows. How you go about such adjustments depends on the version of Word you are using. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Aligning Decimal Numbers in Tables How to line up numbers properly in a table. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Aligning Positive and Negative Whole Numbers in a Column If you have a column of whole numbers in a table, and the negative values have parentheses around them, then you may wonder how to best align the numbers so they look professional in the table. This tip explains a couple of different ways you can do the formatting. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Cell Alignment Individual cells in a table can be aligned any way you desire. As pointed out here, just select the cell and apply the formatting. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Changing Spacing Between Table Cells Word's table editor allows you to create complex tables for use in your documents. This tip explains how to change the space between cells in a Word table. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Distributing Table Rows Evenly If you’ve adjusted the height of your table and the rows within the table, you might want to later return all those rows to a uniform height. In Word this is referred to as “distributing” rows, and it is an easy task to do, as discussed in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Formatting an ASCII Table with Spaces When you get a text file from a program other than Word, tabular information may be formatted with nothing but spaces in between columns. You can easily convert such information to Word’s native table structure by using the macro in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Formatting Currency If you need to format a number so that it appears as currency, it is not as easy to do in Word as it is in Excel. You can use the technique introduced in this tip (utilizing fields) to control exactly how you want that number displayed. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Formatting Lots of Tables Different ways you can format many tables in a document. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

How to Keep Table Rows Together Word will keep either entire tables or table rows together for data continuity. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Keeping Table Rows Together When you create a table that extends beyond a single page, you may want to make sure that the information in a table row doesn’t span a page break. You can make sure that Word presents the table the way you expect by adjusting the table formatting. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Keeping Tables on One Page Got a short table that you want to keep on a single page? You can use some of the paragraph formatting techniques you already know in order to accomplish the task. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Last-Row Border Formatting How to make the border on the last row on a page look right. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Quickly Inserting Table Rows Need to pop a few extra rows into a table? It is easy to do using the same tools you used to create the table in the first place. This tip explains how you can add the rows you need. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Quickly Removing Table Borders Insert a table in your document and Word assumes that you want borders around the table and its cells. Here’s a shortcut that allows you to easily remove those borders. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Repeating Table Rows with Manual Page Breaks Do you have a table that extends more than a page in length? If so, you may be frustrated in making the table break where you want it to and having repeating rows at the top of each page. This tip examines ways you can get the tables to break properly, all while including the repeating rows as you need. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Resizing Table Columns with the Mouse Once a table is inserted in your document, you can use the mouse to adjust the width of columns. The effect the mouse pointer has on column widths depends, primarily, on your use of keys such as Shift and Ctrl. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Resizing Your Table Need to make your table a different size? It’s easy to do, using the same general technique you use when resizing a graphic. This tip walks you through the steps to do the resizing. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Setting a Default Table Border Width When you insert a table into your document, it uses a standard-weight line around each cell in the table. If you want to change that default line weight, you may be out of luck. Here’s a couple of macros you can use to make it easier to change the line weight. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Space after a Table Those familiar with styles are used to setting vertical spacing before or after paragraphs. You can get just the look you want when it comes to spacing, except in regard to tables. Getting a certain amount of space after a table can take some trial and error, as detailed in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Tables within Tables Word has had the ability to place tables within tables since the release of Word 2000. This tip describes how you can best place tables into a table cell and the best way to format the tables. Microsoft Word versions: 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Taming Unruly Tables If you make structural changes to your table by adding new columns here and there, you could easily end up with a table that is wider than what can be displayed on-screen. Here’s how to get your table back into view. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Vertical Lines in Word Lines are a common addition to documents. Word provides several different methods by which you can add vertical lines to your document. This tip describes each of these methods so you can pick the one that best matches your needs. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

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