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The time will come when you need to put text into little boxes that are organized into columns and rows. Yes, were talking about tables here. As everyone who has ever worked on one knows, tables are a bit-of-the-unknown if you don't know how they work. Getting all the columns to fit, making columns and rows the right width and height, and editing text in a table is not easy. So problematic are tables that Word has devoted an entire menu to constructing them: the Tables menu. Fortunately for you, the commands on this menu makes formatting and working with tables easy. This page explains how to create Word tables, enter text into tables, change the number and size of columns and rows, sort and format tables. Merge & Split CellsWhen you merge cells, is when you select a few cells and then join them together as one cell.In the example below, the cells in the second row have been merged to create one large cell. Where the first and third rows have six cells, the second has only one.
To merge cells in a table, follow these steps:
Splitting cells allows you to split a cell into two or more cells, depending on your needs. To split a cell, follow these steps:
Splitting Word TablesYou might have created a very large table. After having typed all the info into the table, you could realize you should have created two or more tables instead of one big table. Not to worry, you can just split the table into two separate Word tables, where you should have created another table.To split a table, follow these steps:
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