As with other objects you’ve seen in this chapter, you can right-click on a table and then click Format Table to open the Format Table dialog box. Note that the settings on the Colors and Lines tab apply only to the selected cell—the cell on which you right-clicked to open the dialog box. If you want to work with colors and fills for more than one cell, you have to select those cells before right-clicking and selecting Format

Table. To select cells, first click the table. Then drag over the cells to select. You also can move the mouse pointer outside the table boundary above a column or to the left of a row that you want to select. When the mouse pointer changes to a black arrow pointing to the row or column, clicking the mouse selects the entire row or column. Also note that the Format Table dialog box includes a Cell Properties tab, on which you can change the vertical text alignment, margins, and text rotation for the selected cells.

One last table skill that’s handy to know is how to resize the width of a table column. To do so, point to the right border of the column until you see the resizing pointer, which appears at the far right of the Monday row in Figure 31-22. Then drag left or right to fix the column width as desired.

FIGURE 31-22
Drag to adjust table column width.

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