Editing Tables

There are several things you can do to help make your tables more easily readable, including adding borders to cells to keep the information separate, aligning text in cells both horizontally and vertically, and merging cells so that, for example, the title of a table can run across all the columns in the table.

Modify Table Borders

  1. Click and drag across a table to select all its cells.

  2. Click the Table Tools, Design tab.

  3. Click the Border tool.

    Modify Table Borders

  4. Choose a border style such as All Borders to outline each and every cell in the table or Outside Borders to surround the outside of the table with a border.

    Modify Table Borders

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You can use the Draw Table tool to draw borders around cells one by one. Click the Draw Table tool on the Table Tools, Design tab, and then, using the pencil-shaped mouse cursor, click on any cell edge to draw a line. This method draws only one cell edge at a time. To get rid of any cell border, you can use the Erase tool on the same tab.

See Also

See Also

For information about formatting table styles and adding background colors, see "Formatting Objects".

Align Text in Cells

  1. Click and drag across the cells to select the ones whose text you want to align.

  2. Click the Table Tools, Layout tab.

  3. Click the Align Left, Center, or Align Right buttons to align the text from left to right in the cells.

  4. Click the Align Top, Center Vertically, or Align Bottom buttons to align the text between the top of the cells and the bottom of the cells.

    Align Text in Cells

Tip

Tip

You can also click the Arrange button on the Home tab, click Align, and then choose any of the alignment commands from a drop down menu that appears.

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To align a table relative to the edges of your slides, click Arrange, Align, and choose Align To Slide.

Merge Cells

  1. Click and drag to select the cells you want to merge.

  2. Click the Table Tools, Layout tab.

  3. Click the Merge Cells button. The selected cells are merged into one.

    Merge Cells

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To return the merged cells to individual cells again, click and drag to select the cell, and then on the Table Tools, Layout tab click the Split Cells button. In the dialog box that appears, enter the number of columns or rows you want to split the merged cell into and click OK. The merged cell is split into the number of individual cells you indicated.

Tip

Tip

You can merge any number of cells including cells in multiple rows and columns. This is often useful for tables you use to create forms that may have nonuniform cells for holding different types of information or pictures of various sizes.

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