Tables, Columns and Text Boxex

MS Word - Tables, Columns and Text Boxex

Tables, Columns, and Text Boxes TABLES Choose Whether to Draw Tables or Just Insert Them Prevent Word from Resizing a Table Place a Table at the Top of a Page Get a Table Away from the Start of a Document Position a Table Correctly on a Page... ...and Position the Table's Contents Correctly Make a Table the Full Width of the Text Restore the Cell Height and Width Dialog Box Repeat a Header Row Delete a Table, Not Just Its Contents Work Smart with Table Columns Use Different Cell Widths in Different Rows Rearrange Table Columns Convert Text to Tables Print Table Gridlines Get Rid of Table Gridlines Make All Your Table Borders Print Wrap Text Around a Table Create Formulas in Tables Speed Up Word's Handling of Tables Avoid Vertically Merged Cells in Word 2000 COLUMNS Create Newspaper-Style Columns Mix Different Numbers of Columns in a Document Prevent Columns from Vanishing When You Save as a Web Page TEXT BOXES Use Text Boxes for Complex Layouts Create a Series of Linked Text Boxes

Tables are a great tool for positioning data precisely in your documents without resorting to such horrors as groups of text boxes. Tables mostly behave pretty well, provided that you know what you're doing with thembut their complexities and occasional outré habits can be extremely problemable.
Compared with tables, columns and text boxes provide more moderate levels of problems but the end of the tutorial shows you how to deal with the curve balls these features can throw at you.

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