Creating Tables in Microsoft Word
Creating Tables in Microsoft Word
9/15/14
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Creating Tables in Microsoft Word
When you want to make a listing of information neat and easy to read in your writing piece, you can create a table. You
can do this by going to the Table pull-down menu and selecting Insert to Table, or you can simply click on the table icon on the
standard toolbar and choose your number of rows and columns. Once youve created your table, you can change the width of the
columns by dragging the vertical lines. You can also split, merge, and delete columns and rows.
Friends and Families Hobbies
First name Last name Hobbies
Paul Osgood Dad and construction
worker
Kieran Osgood A full time mom
Zac Whitehouse Having parties
Domenik Hermenegildo Soccer
Barack Obama Being famous
Practice creating a table, by following each of the instructions listed below.
1) Add your name, date and class in a header!
2) Change the above paragraph line spacing to 1.5 instead of single spacing.
3) Below the paragraph, create a table with three columns and five rows.
4) Use the Arial font, size 12 for all information in the body of your table.
5) In column one, type the first name of your friend or family member.
6) In column two type the last name of your friend or family member.
7) In the last column type the name of a hobby that the person has (i.e. sport played, instrument played, collections,
reading.)
8) Repeat steps 5-7 for the remaining four rows. (You will have information for five people)
9) Add a row at the top of the table and make a column heading for each column
10) Use font size 14Bold for your headings.
11) Add a title for your table by adding one more row and merge the cells in the row. Be sure to center it above the table
and make the font larger and Bold.