1. Day 3: Working with Tables
By Dr. Nang Tom Hawm Saw

2. Creating a Table Click where you want to insert a table.
Click Insert  Table  Insert Table
The dialog box shown inFig (b) will appear and then you can choose the number of rows and columns.
Figure (b)
Figure (a)
(OR)
When Figure (a) Dialog box appear, you can also click and hold your mouse then drag to select the number of rows and columns that you want to insert into your document.
Creating a Table

3. Selecting Cells TO SELECT DO THIS A Cell
Click the left edge of a cell ( arrow head should enter the cell)
A Row
Click to the left of (beside) the row
A Column
Click the column’s grid line or border
Multiple cells, rows, or columns
Drag across the cells, rows, or columns
Selecting Cells

4. Inserting Cells, Rows and Columns
RClick the cell, Rows and columns and then follow the commands
Inserting Cells, Rows and Columns

5. Deleting Rows, Columns and Cells
Select the rows, Columns and Cells
Right Click the selected rows, columns and cells and then follow the commands
Deleting Rows, Columns and Cells

6. To merge cells, select the cells, row, or column to merge, and then Layout menu  Merge group  Merge Cells Button For instance, you may wish to merge all of the cells in the top row of a table for a heading.
To split a cell into two or more rows or columns, select the cell you wish to split and click Split Cells, and then Layout menu  Merge group  Split Cells Button , and then, when the Split Cells dialog box appears, change the number
of columns or rows to indicate how you want the cell divided.
Merge Cells
Split Cells
Merge and Split Cells
Selected
cells

7. Changing Height and Width
Wrapped data
Reset the pointer on the column boundary until it becomes a resize pointer then drag the column width you want.
Reset the point on the row boundary until it becomes a resize pointer then drag the boundary
Often adjustments are needed to the row height or the column width so that the data fits and does not wrap within the cell. The first table shown here displays the data wrapped in the cells, making it difficult to understand. Select the column or row that needs adjustment, and increase or decrease the measurement number as needed in the Table Column Width box or the Table Row Width box.
Changing Height and Width

8. Add Shading Select the text/table/rows/columns to add shading
Design menu  Table Styles group  Shading Button
(OR)
RClick Borders and Shading  Shading tab
Add Shading

9. Exercise 3-1

10. A tab stop is used to describe the location the cursor stops after the tab key is pressed. Tab stops are used in word processors to enable users to align text by pressing the tab key.
What is Tab Stop?

11. Setting, moving and Removing custom tab stop
i) Point to the tab symbol on the top of the vertical ruler bar.
ii) Choose the type of the tab by clicking that Tab Stop Button symbol.
(Left tab (default), Center tab, Right tab, Decimal tab)
iii) To place the tab stop position, click on the horizontal ruler.
iv) To move the tab stop position, drag the tab stop symbol to the new position. V) To remove the tab stop setting, just drag the symbol down. I
Tab Selector Icon
Type of Tab
Left tab
Center tab
Right tab
Decimal tab
Bar tab L T . I
Setting, moving and Removing custom tab stop

12. Exercise 3-2

13. Assignment & Questions