Working with Tables in Microsoft Word 2007

Tables are great for creating charts of information, like and address list. Word 2007 makes it amazingly easy to create and insert a table into your word documents.

Hi, this is Michael Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to your Butterscotch Account Tutorial on how to insert a table in a document in Word 2007. Tables can be very handy for breaking up information. So in Word 2007 we’ll click on the insert tab and here’s the table. And this is a very cool feature, in the old days you had to put in numbers. Here, you can go down and highlight and notice in the document here that as you move the cursor across, the elements of the table begin to appear. So we’re outlining in how many columns we’re going to have. We put in an extra. And then we’ll go down and we’ll put in more rows. So we’ll say we’re going to here, so that even turns your table. You can create an informational thing. If you press enter inside of a table, it makes that cell of the table. But it makes them bigger all the way across. And there’s no way to prevent that. There are different options in a table as far as automatic sizing and so on. But this is the basic function of creating the table. You can always add more columns or rows to a table but we’ll do with that in another tutorial. This is inserting the table into your document and that’s all there is to it.