Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

The Great Document Organizer

I often compare tables to a closet organizer or that tray in your silverware drawer. Whatever your specific reason for using a table, a table is a container, designed to help you fit more on the page while keeping that content organized and easy to manage. Similar to a closet or drawer organizer, tables provide a separate compartment (a cell) for each piece of content.

If you think of a table relative to the three levels of formatting—those levels are explained in Chapter 4"—tables are objects in which you can place content and apply almost any of the same font or paragraph formatting that you can apply in the body of a document.

So, the cells of a table are very much like a collection of related, miniature pages—only ...