Managing The Tables In Word Documents


Perhaps you need to add more rows or columns. Perhaps you want to make a quick adjustment to one of the column widths. To put data into your table, you just go to the cell and type the data. Formatting a table and getting data into it is most of the battle because creating the table’s outline is so simple. You will find that traversing a table differs somewhat from traversing regular text.

Resize the Columns
Adjusting a column’s size is extremely simple. Move your mouse pointer to an edge of the column you want to resize (to either increase or decrease the column width). The mouse pointer changes to a double arrow. Click the edge of the column and drag the column left or right. When you release the mouse, Word resizes the column to its new size. If you shrink a column’s width too narrow, the text may not all fit on one line, and Word will be forced to double the height of the rows to hold the extra data.

Delete a Column
Select a column you want to delete by clicking the top line of that column. Right-click and a menu appears. Select Delete Columns to delete the column from the table. (If you first drag to select multiple columns, the Delete Columns command deletes all your selected columns.)

Insert a Column
Select an entire column when you want to insert a new column. Right-click and select Insert and either Insert Columns to the Left or Insert Columns to the Right, depending on where you want the new column.

Adjust Row Height
Adjusting a row’s height is as simple as dragging the row divider up or down. Click any row’s dividing line and drag your mouse up or down to adjust that row.