Archive for the ‘Tables’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
These directions will give you the steps to add form fields (Content Controls) to a Word document. The final, filled-in document could be saved, printed or emailed.
First, if you don't see a Developer tab, that needs to be turned on. Go to Office button, Word Options, and click the Popular ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Practice, Printing, Projects & Practice, Tables, Templates, Word 2007 | 33 Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Word doesn't come with too many predefined keyboard shortcuts for working with tables. Here they are:
Select Table = Alt + Clear (Keypad 5, turn off Num Lock)
Move to Top of Column, End of Column = Alt + Page Up or Alt + Page Down
Move to Beginning of Row, End of ...
Posted in Customize, Shortcut Keys, Tables, Word 2007 | 9 Comments »
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
With the cursor anywhere in the table to be converted, look in Table Tools, then the Layout tab, Data group. Click Convert to Text. In the Convert Table to Text box, use the Separate text with option to layout the converted text.
Paragraph marks will make the text from each ...
Posted in Tables, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Here are a few tips for working with long tables.
Repeat Heading Rows
Word 2007 gives you the option of automatically repeating your heading rows on multiple-page tables.
Select the heading row to repeat.
In Table Tools, Layout tab, Data tab, click Repeat Header Rows.
If you make any formatting or text changes to ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Tables, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Occasionally, you can run into text that is set up in tabbed columns, or with spaces between columns, or copied from a web page that would be easier to work with if it was set up as a table.
Example 1: Convert Tabbed Text to a Table
Start with a New, ...
Posted in Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
This exercise will let you practice some table techniques; resizing a table, merging cells, rotating text, applying a table format, turning on text wrapping for a table, and centering the table on a page.
The premise of the example is an organization that has a one-page promotional handout that includes ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 18th, 2008
How do I keep text together on one line?
If you want it to look like normally typed text, with spaces between words, you would use non-breaking spaces (aka hard spaces). Instead of using the space bar, use Shift + Ctrl + space. Any words with non-breaking space between them will ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Headers & Footers, Page Numbering, Special Characters & Symbols, Tables, Word 2007 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
This will show you how to take the data table you save in Part 1 of this project and merge that data onto mailing labels.
One problem with labels is that people tend to generate the label layout, and then type many pages of mailing address on the labels. That ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
See Table Basics in Word 2007 to review table terminology and to see more detailed directions on inserting a table.
For the first part of this project, you will insert a table and type a few rows of mailing-list type information into it. You will also see how to insert and ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
