Show off your organization and sorting talents by formatting and creating your table with Words Table tools.

Tables organize text into cells, where a cell is the intersection of a row and a column.

To create a table by highlighting rows and columns, follow these steps.

To create a table by defining a specific number of rows and columns (up to a maximum of 63 columns), follow these steps.

Word draws a rectangular dotted box to show where your table will appear.

To separate text, you need to use a unique character such as.

So if you divided your text by tabs, you would select the Tabs radio button.

All these changes can make the text inside the cells easier to read.

At this point, you can choose a command to modify the selected row or column (as when you choose a color or alignment).

If you change the alignment of blank cells, any new text you type in those blank cells will appear according to the alignment you choose.

However, it can be much faster to use a predesigned table style instead, which can automatically format your text, color rows, and add borders to your tables.

As you move the mouse pointer over a table style, Word displays a live preview of your table formatted in the selected style.

You can resize a column or row by using the mouse or by defining row heights and column widths.

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