Utilizing Table Styles in Word 2007


Clicking on the Design tab brings Table Style Options, Table Styles and Draw Borders into view. Table Style Options allows you to choose special formatting for the header row, total row, and first and last columns based on the table style chosen. Banded rows and columns fill the background of alternating even and odd rows/columns with color for easier reading. As you select the different options you can see the changes made to your table as well as the sample table styles shown in the section next to it.

The design of your table can be defined even more by selecting Modify Table Style. This will allow you to change table properties, borders and shading, banding, font, paragraph and tabs to suit your needs. If you can’t get the look you want from the pre-defined styles even with modification, selecting New Table Style gives you the opportunity to create a whole new style from the beginning. Selecting Clear will remove the style of your table altogether.

The last section under Table Styles is Draw Borders. Drawing borders can be applied to an existing table or to create a new table. Border style, width and color, as well as Draw Border and Eraser are available options. To modify a table select it to activate the Table Tools bar. For our example a solid line of 1½ point with a pen color of green was selected. Clicking on Draw Table turns your cursor into a pencil icon. Using the pencil, you can either click on lines within a cell or draw a line around several cells or the table, which will turn into solid 1½ point green lines. Click on Draw Table to stop drawing and change your cursor back. The Eraser will erase the lines separating cells and join the cells together.

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