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Choose View-> Toolbars-> Tables and Borders and the Tables and Borders Toolbar, figure 33, will be displayed. The tables toolbar will aid you in creating a table, editing a table and adding borders and color to your table or selected text. Word has very powerful table tools. These tools may seem a bit complex at first view but will become easier to use with practice and you will be able to easily make a table like figure 32..
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(a) Draw Table Tool. Use to create a new table or to edit an existing table. For example, choose a line style, "c" below, line width, "d" below, or color "e" below click the draw tool, place the draw table tool over a border on your table and click to replace the border with the line style, width or color you just choose. You can also drag the draw tool across a cell to split the cell into too cells.
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(b) Eraser Tool; Erases cell borders, merging the data. Figure 33 contains the original, figure 34 illustrated clicking the eraser tool on the cell separator, figure 32 shows the final version with no cell separation for the "Abortion For Any Reason" label.
Figure 33: The Original
Figure 34: Erasing
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Note: To change a line style , line weight or line color for table borders:
(1) For a whole table or a selection of cells: select the table, row, column or cells, click the line style (c), weight (d) or color (e) button, then choose placement for the border line style by selecting the appropriate border tool choice (f).
(2) To change one border at a time: select the line style, weight or color then select the Draw Table tool and click individually on cell borders to make the change.
(c) Line Style Tool; Selects the line style to use with your table borders. Change the line style choice by clicking the down arrow on the right side of the line style tool and dragging to select one of the options, see below. (see Note above on table cell, row or column selection procedure).
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(d) Line Weight Tool; Selects the line weight to use with your table borders. Change the line weight choice by clicking the down arrow on the right side of the line weight tool and dragging to select one of the options, see below (see Note above on table cell, row or column selection procedure).
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(e) Border Color Tool; Selects the border color to use with your table. Change the border color choice by clicking and holding the mouse button down on the border color tool and dragging to select one of the options, see below. (see Note above on table cell, row or column selection procedure).
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(f) Outside Border Tool; Select the table, row, column, cell or text, click the border tool to make a border. Choose border options (whole, right, left...), see below, by clicking the down arrow on to the right of the border tool and dragging to make selection. (see Note above on table cell, row or column selection procedure)
To remove a border select the area with the border to be removed, click the down arrow on to the right of the border tool and choose the no border option, see below.
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(g) Shading Color Tool; Select the table, row, column or cell, click the shading button to shade the area selected. To change the shading color selection click the down arrow on the right side of the shading tool and select a shade.
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(h) Insert Table Tool
"In the Tables and Borders toolbar click the Insert Table tool button. This will open the following dialog box, Figure 41.Figure 41
- Type in the Number of columns you want for your table.
- Type "1" for the Number of rows and click OK (you could also make AutoFormat choices, I do this type of editing after the table is typed in).
- The first row of your empty table will be placed in your text
- To move around the row, and the table just press the <tab> key or click in a cell with the mouse
- Add a new row by placing the mouse in the last cell of the last row and press <tab>.
- To insert, delete, select, merge (columns or rows) choose a table format (Table AutoFormat) and other table properties first select the cells, rows or columns to be edited and select the function you want to perform from the Table menu, see below (shows the Insert menu), or click the down arrow to the right of the Insert Table Tool and Insert choices will be displayed. Other choices can be displayed with Delete, Select, Merge Cells, Table AutoFormat and Table Properties.
Figure 42
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(i) Merge Cells Tool; Select the cells to be merged, click the Merge Cells tool button.
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(j) Split Cells Tool: Select the cell to be split, click the Split Cells tool button. Fill in the number of rows and columns you want.
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(k) Align Tool (top, bottom, left, right, etc.) Select the table, row, column or cell to be aligned, click the down arrow to the right of the align button to choose the type of alignment, see below. Click the Align button.
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(l) Distribute Rows Evenly Tool; select the rows you wand to have the same height. Click the Distribute Rows Evenly button
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(m) Distribute Columns Evenly Tool; select the rows you wand to have the same width. Click the Distribute Columns Evenly button
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(n) Table Autoformat Tool; formats a whole table as per provided formats. Select the whole table, click the Table Autoformat button then select from one of the provided alternatives.
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(o) Change Text Direction Tool; select the cell and its text, click the Change Text Direction to change the orientation of the selected text to a vertical position in a table cell.
Standard Horizontal Text in A Table Vertical Text in A Table
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(p) Sort Ascending tool; sorts selected rows in alphabetical order, a to z
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(q) Sort Descending tool; sorts selected rows in reverse alphabetical order z to a.
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(r) AutoSum button; sums the values of the column or row. (I'm not sure how column or row is determined)