Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

What’s New for Tables in Word 2007

The main difference in tables for Microsoft Office Word 2007 is simply how to access the features you need for working with tables. The underlying functionality and range of table capabilities is largely unchanged, with a couple of exceptions, as follows.

• New Quick Styles capabilities are available for formatting tables. Those were introduced in Chapter 5, and are also addressed later in this chapter.

• The Quick Tables gallery, where you can save your own tables for later use, is discussed in Chapter 9.

When you insert a table into an Office Word 2007 document, or place your insertion point in any existing table, you get two contextual tabs that include most of the tools you need for working with tables.

On the Table ...