The bias against tables has 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 has done a great job fixing its mistakes and doing everything possible for the convenience of users. It’s a pity, of course, that many of those same users don’t know about this and still work in the 2003 edition of the office suite. Doesn’t it remind you of the story about hedgehogs and cacti? :)
I simply humanly recommend that anyone stuck in the past upgrade to at least the 2013 version of Microsoft Office, or better yet, immediately to the latest version, 2016. Believe me, it only seems to you that you are working in a classic environment; in fact, it has long been overgrown with moss and mold.
Office routine is full, including tables. We take one electronic piece of paper, cut out part of it, insert it into a new document and edit the details. A good technique, but it seems to me that working with templates is a little 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 "Quick Tables". Pay attention to the “Save selected fragment to collection” item.
Here you will find several quite useful options and, most importantly, you will be able to save any other table or its fragment, including your own, as a template.
Remember the bear that, as a child, walked over your ears and hands in a rampant gypsy dance? It’s been since then that you’ve disliked singing and brushes, and it’s been since then that you’ve stubbornly ignored the “Draw Table” option in Word. Buck up, grown man! It's time to suppress the furry monster! It's easier than it seems.
Click on the “Insert” tab, click on “Table” and go to “Draw Table”.
And don’t be afraid to make a mistake: there is always an eraser at hand. Sometimes a pencil and eraser greatly simplify the creation of complex tables with small elements.
Starting with Word 2013, adding rows and columns has turned from a mind-numbing torture into an exciting fun. Don’t think about it, the archaic “Insert columns on the left/right” and “Insert rows on the top/bottom” have not gone away, but now you can forget about them.
Hover your cursor over the space between rows or columns outside the table and click on the plus sign that appears.
In the future I would like to see something similar for the delete function.
Every person has favorite and disgusting numbers that he indiscriminately uses or avoids in his life. Even in the parameters of your tables. I know people like that. :)
If you are used to accurately setting the indent values, width and height of cells through table properties, try an alternative - the ruler.
Hover your cursor over the border of columns or rows, grab it, hold down the Alt key and use the convenience of a centimeter ruler.
The same trick can be done with indent and protrusion markers. Hover your cursor 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 hug your laptop just because they exist. When it comes to Word tables, the three combinations I use most often are:
A little bit of magic that you can show off in front of an amazed audience. Instead of creating tables 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 get to know a person, give him a table with a tyrant text. A slightly loose interpretation of a well-known opinion, of course, but it hits the mark. Just 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 - reducing the font size. But it is better to place the text in a different way.
Right-click in the cell, select “Table Properties”, switch to the “Cell” tab, go to “Options” and check the “Enter text” box.
Word will strain itself 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 sometimes you borrow someone’s table and hum contentedly under your breath: “Only you, the fish of my dreams”! Nice work by someone else! You start filling it with your data, and then uncontrollable devilry happens: some columns spread out due to the weight loss of others. The head becomes sober, and reality ceases to please. What should I do?
Jokes aside, it happens that they send you a table of a strict format, with which you cannot make mistakes. At the very least, don’t be lazy to send it back with the same dimensions. This way the recipient will see what he expects to see. To do this, disable auto-sizing based on content.
Right-click in any cell, select “Table Properties”, go to “Options” and uncheck the “Auto-size based on content” box.
The same option will save your table from collapse if you need to fill some cells with images: they will fit as a thumbnail instead of full-size.
Anything to add? Write in the comments.
Has the toolbar disappeared in Microsoft Word? What to do and how to get access to all those tools without which working with documents is simply impossible? The main thing is not to panic, just as it disappeared, it will return, especially since finding this loss is quite simple.
As they say, everything that isn't done is for the best, so thanks to the mysterious disappearance of the Quick Access Toolbar, you can learn not only how to get it back, but also how to customize the elements that appear on it. So let's get started.
If you are using Word 2012 or higher, you just need to click one button to return the toolbar. It is located in the upper right part of the program window and looks like an upward arrow located in a rectangle.
You press this button once, the disappeared toolbar returns, press it again - it disappears again. By the way, sometimes you really need to hide it, for example, when you need to concentrate entirely on the content of the document, and so that nothing unnecessary distracts.
This button has three display modes; you can select the appropriate one just by clicking on it:
The name of each of these display modes speaks for itself. Choose the one that will be most convenient for you while working.
If you are using MS Word 2003 - 2010, to enable the toolbar you must perform the following manipulations.
1. Open the tab menu "View" and select "Toolbars".
2. Check the boxes next to the items that you need to work.
3. Now they will all appear on the Quick Access Toolbar as separate tabs and/or tool groups.
It also happens that not the entire toolbar “disappears” (is hidden, as we have already figured out), but its individual elements. Or, for example, the user simply cannot find some tool, or even an entire tab. In this case, you need to enable (configure) the display of these very tabs on the quick access panel. You can do this in the section "Options".
1. Open a tab "File" on the quick access panel and go to the section "Options".
Note: In earlier versions of Word, instead of a button "File" there is a button "MS Office".
2. In the window that appears, go to the section "Customize the feed".
3. In the “Main Tabs” window, check the boxes next to the tabs that you need.
4. Now go to the section "Quick Access Toolbar".
5. In section "Select commands from" select item "All teams".
6. Go through the list below, when you find the required tool there, click on it and press the button "Add" located between the windows.
7. Repeat the same step for all other tools that you want to add to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Note: You can also remove unnecessary tools by clicking the button "Delete", and sort their order using the arrows located to the right of the second window.
8. To close a window "Options" and save your changes, click the button "OK".
Now the quick access panel (toolbar) will display only the tabs you need, groups of tools and, in fact, the tools themselves. By properly setting up this panel, you can significantly optimize your working time, thereby increasing your productivity.
Hello, dear reader! Today I will tell you how to create a complex table in Word 2010 and higher. I call complex tables those that contain joined areas. They can contain vertical text and 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 look at all the points using the example of such a table.
It is easy to calculate that it has 10 columns and 17 rows. Insert the table. Now in our table we need to combine 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 multiple adjacent cells, left-click 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 select in the toolbar Numbering. You can also number a horizontal group of cells in a table in the same way.
Next, the 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 a button Align Center in Group Alignment(see picture above).
Advice. If your table has many columns and the header data is divided into several rows 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 you have built a table, but completely forgotten about its name. I can't insert text before the table. How about not deleting the table? In such cases, before creating a complex table, you should always make at least one blank line before the insertion point of the table. Well, if this happened, we will correct it.
Select the table using the method described above and press the button with scissors Cut on the tab home. The table will disappear, but don't worry, it is now stored in your computer's memory. Now you need to press the button ENTER on your keyboard to make a blank line for the table name. Go to the tab again home and now press the button Insert. Our table will return to its place and there will be an empty line in front of it for the name. Click above the table and the cursor will be in the right place. All that remains is to enter the forgotten title.
If there is a large amount of data, the table is moved to the next page. And this creates inconvenience when working with it, because the column headings are not visible. You have to go back to the beginning to see them. Word has a means of fixing the table header when moving part of it to the next sheet, and everyone should know about this.
How to repeat the first row of a table when it is broken across several pages?
- Select a row or group of rows that will be repeated when the table breaks.
- In the toolbar, select Working with Tables - Layout - Repeat Header Rows or call the context menu Table Properties – Row tick the box Repeat as heading on every page
I hope this information was useful to you, now you know how to create a complex table. But if you have any doubts, 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 pressing the left mouse button, and the blue circle indicates pressing the right mouse button.
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Almost all users who have at least once opened the Word editor remember the program’s workspace: at the top 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 making it easier to find the required option. In this article we will tell you how to pin the toolbar in Word if it is “hidden” under a document.
The hidden tape mode is especially convenient to use on netbooks and laptops with a small screen. It allows you to increase the view of the page and not be distracted by unnecessary details.
The state of the ribbon remains after closing the document, regardless of which of the listed methods you used. In the collapsed position, the menu will open commands when you hover the mouse over the required tab, and then “hide” the commands again.
Developers from Microsoft, starting with Office 2007, have radically changed the familiar application interface.
Instead of the familiar list of menus, a whole ribbon appeared in Word.
Important!
At one time, many copies were broken in disputes about how convenient this innovation was. But the firm position of the designers of the most popular office suite, who included a similar interface in all newly developed programs, made all conversations pointless.
I just had to calm down and learn to work with a new tool.
The ribbon has many customizable options. And one of them is the ability to collapse the menu into a small line when there is no mouse selection.
The function is convenient in principle, but for some it is a source of unnecessary irritation during operation. The ribbon constantly disappears from view; the user has to make unnecessary mouse movements to open it and select the necessary tool.
Knowing the features of Microsoft applications, it is clear that to change a parameter you need to check or uncheck the box. Let's look for where she could be.
Let's try right-clicking on the collapsed toolbar.
We now have a context menu that looks like this.
Now if you try to uncheck the “Collapse Ribbon” item, it will appear on the screen and remain there, even after clicking on the free space of the document.
The context menu will look like this.
As a result, the tape does not disappear anywhere, and you can concentrate on preparing the necessary document.
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