Microsoft: Word 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 7. Making layouts with tables and text boxes

In This section:

• Inserting tab stops on the ruler

• Inserting a simple table

• Copying an Excel table into Word

• Converting text to a table and back again

• Setting tab atops in table cells

• Adding and deleting rows and columns

• Setting table alignment

• Merging and splitting cells

• Setting cell alignment and direction

• Repeating header rows

• Using table styles for uniform appearance

• Inserting text boxes

In many documents such as letters and contracts, the text starts at the left margin and just goes on until it reaches the right margin; then, it goes to the next line and does the same again. For other documents such as invoices, you need to line up text into two or more columns, with each set of related items on the ...