Working with Tables

Goals

• Create tables.
• Create a table from text.
• Change table formatting.
• Change the number of rows and columns in an existing table.
• Merge/Split cells in a table.
• Sort the data in a table.

Notes

• Creating new tables from scratch.
  • We did this in One Note.
  • He demonstrates a number of other methods.
  • Drawing a table is sort of neat.
• Converting existing text to a table.
  • If you already have a pseudo-table in your text you can automatically build a table.
  • The key is a consistent separator
• Formatting table appearance
  • Easy ways to make your table look the way you want it.
• Using Quick tables
  • Employing a set of predefined tables.
• Adding and removing columns and rows
  • Again, we explored this in One Note.
  • This also covers adjusting row and column widths.
• Sorting data in a table.
  • This is useful
• Merging and splitting cells
  • I frequently do this to fix header type information
  • Or to put two different types of info into a cell.
• Converting a table to text
  • Straight forward section.
• Inserting an Excel table.
  • We will deal with this in much more detail later.