Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Formatting Table Information

To enhance the appearance of a table, you can format its text by using the buttons on the Formatting toolbar, just as you would to format any text in a Word document. You can apply character formatting such as font styles and font effects, and you can apply paragraph formatting such as alignment and indenting.

You can also format the table’s structure by adding borders and shading. Clicking the Borders and Shading command on the Format menu opens the Borders and Shading dialog box, where you can specify options to best delineate the relationships within your table.

To quickly apply predefined sets of formatting to a table, you can choose a table autoformat. Clicking the Table AutoFormat command on the Table menu displays ...