In other articles they found complete guides to make a cover letter, create a timeline in Word, this time we offer you step by step how to make or create tables in Word.
Step by step you will learn to do them in a very simple and practical way, the tables in Word are used for various projects and are useful for maintaining order in certain documents.
How to create tables in Word?
- To begin we must open our Word program on the computer.
- In the “Insert” tab we look for the “Tables” option to be able to create them.
- Within this option we can find how to create our table and with how many cells we need.
- We can view the tables with their cells from this menu and you can also preview them on the sheet, if this method is to your liking you can use it only by checking the cells you need and you will already have it in your Word sheet.
Alternative methods to create and modify tables in Word
- Another important method to make the tables is to enter again “Insert” and “Tables” there we find the option “Insert table” that allows us to customize by number of columns, rows, width of rows and more, it is ideal for making large tables in Word.
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«Draw tables» a more “homemade” method to make them since with a tool like a pencil we will carefully trace each column, row of our table, thus being able to customize it as you wish.
- An Excel spreadsheet can be inserted and used within the “Tables” and “Excel sheets” option.
- Last but not least, we can use the “Tables” button and in the “Quick Tables” section.
- Within them you can select in the menu that is displayed one option among several, they are tables already generated to carry out different projects such as; default calendars.
How to modify and edit tables in Word
We can modify and edit the tables in Word to change their sizes, change or remove a row, cell or column from the place, insert more cells or rows if perhaps they are missing.
- We enter the “Presentation” tab.
- A menu is displayed where we will find different options to complement our table.
- Selecting each cell is not impossible, if you want to modify it, you can just click on the “Select” option and in the menu that appears we can choose what to select, it can be a cell, a complete row and in it we can delete or copy to insert a new.
- Sometimes the tables that we download from the Internet and want to copy so that it exists in our document have no borders, no visible rows or columns when we paste into our document.
- In a case like this we can enter “Presentation” and then “View grid” to access to view the borders, cells and rows of our copied table. But these will only be seen in an “illustrative” way so that they are displayed permanently we must go to the “Design” tab
- Within it we find the option «Borders» we will select the borders that we want to be seen within our invisible grid.
- So when doing this, when we return to the “Presentation” menu and uncheck the “View grid” option, the new grid that we created on which we copied will already be displayed.
With these steps we can create tables very easily and in a few steps, a complete guide on how to do each point from inserting a table already created and downloaded from the Internet to making a table from scratch with Word, or on the contrary how to remove formatting from tables and texts in Word.
There are many options and possibilities in Word that we can present to you in each article about this incredible program, stay tuned for new articles with more step by step on how to hide or remove the borders of a table in Word and its tools that will help you manage the program like a pro.
