Almost all users who have ever opened the Word editor remember the program workspace: in the upper part there is a control panel with various sections and functions. After analyzing the sequence of user actions, the developers grouped the commands into separate blocks, thereby facilitating the search for the required option. In this article, we will tell you how to pin the toolbar in Word if it is "hidden" under the document.
Hidden tape mode is especially convenient to use on netbooks, laptops with a small screen. It allows you to increase the overview of the page and not be distracted by unnecessary details.
The state of the ribbon is retained even after the document is closed, regardless of which of the methods listed above you used. In the minimized position, the menu will open commands when you hover the mouse over the required tab, and then “hide” the commands again.
Hello dear reader! Today I will show you how to create a complex table in Word 2010 and above. I call complex tables those that contain merged areas. They can contain vertical text, be placed on several sheets. Setting up a complex table has its own subtleties, and knowing them, you can quickly create any table.
Let's analyze all the points using the example of such a table.
It is easy to calculate that it has 10 columns and 17 rows. Insert a table. Now in our table it is necessary to merge the cells of the first column, partially in the second and in the first row. To do this, select a group of cells one by one and give the command Merge Cells either from the context menu or from the ribbon Working with tables - Layout group An association.
Advice. To select several neighboring cells, press the left mouse button in the center of the first cell and, without releasing it, move the pointer until the required number of cells is highlighted. Then release the button.
In the original table, you can see that the cells of the first column are numbered. Let's put it down. Select these cells and on the tab home in the toolbar select Numbering. In the same way, it is possible to put down numbering in the table for a horizontal group of cells.
Next, data is entered into the table, and finally the final formatting is performed. To make the data look nice, you need to align the text in the table. Select the entire table (click on the four directional arrow that appears at the upper left corner of the table when you hover the mouse cursor there).
Now on the tab Working with tables - Layout select button Align Center in Group alignment(see picture above).
Advice. If your table has many columns and header data is split into several lines letter by letter, then select the cells with this data and specify another Text direction(see picture above). If necessary, you can reduce the font size.
It often happens that they built a table, but completely forgot about its name. Can't insert text before table. How to be, not to delete the table? In such cases, before creating a complex table, you should always leave at least one blank line before the insertion point of the table. Well, if it happened, we will fix it.
Select the table as described above and press the button with scissors Cut tab home. The table will disappear, but don't worry, it's currently stored in your computer's memory. Now you need to press the button ENTER on your keyboard to make an empty string for the table name. Back to the tab home and now press the button Insert. Our table will return to its place and in front of it there will be an empty line for the title. Click above the table and the cursor will be in the right place. It remains only to enter the forgotten title.
If there is a large amount of data, the table wraps to the next page. And this creates inconvenience when working with it, because the column headers are not visible. You have to go back to the beginning to see them. In the Word there is a means to fix the table header when transferring part of it to the next sheet, and everyone should know about it.
How to repeat the first row of a table when it breaks over several pages?
- We select a row or a group of rows that will be repeated when the table breaks.
- In the toolbar select Table Tools - Layout - Repeat Header Rows or call the context menu Table Properties - String tick the box Repeat as heading on every page
I hope this information has been useful to you, now you know how to create a complex table. But if you still have doubts, then watch this silent video on working with complex tables. Everything is clear without words!
The yellow circle in the video indicates the position of the mouse cursor, the red circle indicates the left mouse button, and the blue circle indicates the right mouse button.
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The prejudice against tables has its deep roots. To be honest, a dozen years ago, tables could not boast of convenience due to the imperfection of the program as a whole. But a lot of time has passed since then. Microsoft did a great job on their mistakes and did everything possible for the convenience of users. It is a pity, of course, that many of those very users do not know about this and are still working in the 2003 edition of the office suite. Doesn't it remind you of the story about hedgehogs and cacti? :)
To all those stuck in the past, I simply humanly recommend upgrading to at least the 2013 version of Microsoft Office, or better, immediately to the fresh 2016. Believe me, it only seems to you that you are working in an environment that has become a classic, in fact, it has long been overgrown with moss and mold.
Office everyday life is full, including tables. We take one electronic piece of paper, cut out a part of it, paste it into a new document and correct the details. Nice technique, but it seems to me that working with templates is a bit easier and faster. By the way, in Word itself, templates are called express tables.
Click on the "Insert" tab, click on "Table" and go to "Speed Tables". Pay attention to the item "Save selection to collection".
Here you will find several quite useful options and, most importantly, you can save any other table or its fragment as a template, including your own.
Remember the bear that walked over your ears and arms in a wild gypsy dance as a child? Since then, you do not like singing and brushes, and since then you have stubbornly ignored the "Draw Table" option in Word. Shake it up, grown man! It's time to crush the furry monster! It's easier than it looks.
Click on the "Insert" tab, click on "Table" and go to "Draw Table".
And do not be afraid to make a mistake: there is always an eraser at hand. Sometimes a pencil and an eraser make it much easier to create complex tables with small elements.
Starting with Word 2013, adding rows and columns has gone from being a pain in the ass to an addictive fun. Don't think, the archaic "Insert Columns Left/Right" and "Insert Rows Top/Bottom" have not gone away, but now you can forget about them.
Hover over the space between rows or columns outside the table and click on the plus that appears.
In the future, I would like to see something similar for the delete function.
Every person has favorite and repulsive numbers that they indiscriminately use or avoid in their lives. Even in parameters of the tables. I know those. :)
If you are accustomed to accurately setting the indentation values, width and height of cells through the table properties, try an alternative - a ruler.
Hover over the border of columns or rows, grab it, hold down the Alt key and use the convenience of a centimeter ruler.
You can do the same trick with indent and overhang markers. Hover over them and hold down the same Alt key.
If I were a software developer, I would call hotkeys soul buttons. After all, sometimes you just want to cuddle with a laptop just because they are. As for Word tables, I most often use three combinations:
A bit of magic to show off in front of an astonished audience. Instead of creating tables in the usual way, try a couple of other, more sophisticated options:
Select the text, click on the "Insert" tab, click on "Table" and select "Convert to Table".
Pay attention to the auxiliary parameters: the quality of the conversion directly depends on them.
If you want to know a person, throw him a table with the text-tyrant. A slightly free interpretation of a well-known opinion, of course, but hits the mark. Just take a look at the screenshot, or rather at the first column and the word "philological" - an ugly thorn.
According to my observations, in such cases, people first express themselves indecently, and then resort to a less than optimal solution - reduce the font size. But it is better to fit the text in another way.
Right-click in the cell, select "Table Properties", switch to the "Cell" tab, go to "Options" and check the "Fit Text" box.
Word will tighten up and return the runaway letter to its place, and peace will reign in the world again. By the way, for clarity, the “inscribed” text will be underlined with a blue line.
And also, it happens that you borrow someone's table and quite sing under your breath: “Only you, the fish of my dreams”! Good handmade work! You start flooding it with your data, and then uncontrollable devilry happens: some columns are spreading due to the slimming of others. The head sobers up, and reality ceases to please. How to be?
Jokes aside, but it happens that you are sent a table of a strict format, with which you cannot blunder. At least do not be too lazy to send it back with the same dimensions. So the recipient will see what he expects to see. And to do this, turn off auto-sizing by content.
Right-click in any of the cells, select "Table Properties", go to "Options" and uncheck the box "Auto-size to content".
The same option will save your table from collapsing if you need to fill some cells with images: they will fit in as a thumbnail instead of full size.
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Writers, copywriters, office workers work in Word text editor takes a lot of time. It is much more convenient to type texts if the bookmarks and their contents are customized for a specific user. Not everyone knows how to pin a toolbar in Word. Setting up command buttons, tools is not a super difficult task.
On a new tab, you can place the necessary tools and shortcuts for your work.
In Word 2010, a completely blank tab appears on the ribbon called New Tab. Now it can be filled with the necessary buttons and commands using the ribbon settings.
The combination of commands in a new tab can be chosen at your discretion, regardless of their location in other tabs.
New commands can be seen on the ribbon tab, the fewer new tools, the larger they are.
You can move the tab to the right in the "Ribbon Settings ..." by clicking on it with the left mouse button and dragging it up or down.
You can pin buttons from the toolbar that you use all the time to the Quick Access Toolbar. Moreover, add not only the items proposed by the developers, but also other text editing tools.
The more tabs and icons, the smaller they become, they become inconvenient to use. Before you pin a toolbar in Word, you need to think about the functionality of the new commands.
If you have created a large table in Microsoft Word that spans more than one page, you may need to display a header on each page of the document for the convenience of working with it. To do this, you will need to configure the automatic transfer of the title (of the same header) to subsequent pages.
So, in our document there is a large table that already takes or will only take up more than one page. Our task with you is to set up this same table in such a way that its header automatically appears in the top row of the table when you switch to it. You can read about how to create a table in our article.
Note: To transfer the header of a table consisting of two or more rows, it is necessary to select the first row as well.
1. Place the cursor in the first row of the header (the first cell) and select this line or lines that make up the header.
2. Go to the tab "Layout", which is located in the main section "Working with tables".
3. In the tool section "Data" select an option.
Ready! With the addition of rows in the table that will carry it to the next page, a header will be automatically added first, followed by new rows.
In some cases, the table header may consist of several lines, but only one of them needs to be automatically wrapped. This, for example, can be a row with column numbers, located below the row or rows with the main data.
In this case, you first need to split the table, making the line we need a header, which will be transferred to all subsequent pages of the document. Only after that for this line (already headers) it will be possible to activate the parameter "Repeat Header Rows".
1. Place the cursor on the last line of the table located on the first page of the document.
2. Tab "Layout" ("Working with tables") and in the group "An association" select option "split table".
3. Copy that line from the “large”, main table header, which will act as a header on all subsequent pages (in our example, this is the line with the names of the columns).
4. Paste the copied row into the first row of the table on the next page.
5. Select the new header with the mouse.
6. Tab "Layout" click on the button "Repeat Header Rows" located in the group "Data".
Ready! Now the main header of the table, consisting of several lines, will be displayed only on the first page, and the line you added will be automatically transferred to all subsequent pages of the document, starting from the second.
If you need to remove the automatic table header on all pages of the document except the first one, do the following:
1. Select all rows in the table header on the first page of the document and go to the tab "Layout".
2. Press the button "Repeat Header Rows"(group "Data").
3. After that, the header will be displayed only on the first page of the document.
You can finish this, from this article you learned how to make a table header on each page of a Word document.
