Microsoft Word - Creating Colorful Tables
In our last meeting together, we ended the discussion with the easy way to create tables in Microsoft Word. Today, we’ll look at how to spruce up your Word docs by adding tables with color. First, go to TABLE-DRAW TABLE and create a new table within your document. THEN just take a look at the pop-up toolbar that is labeled “Tables and Borders”. Choose a cell within your table and click on the paint bucket in the top right area of the toolbar for Tables and Borders. From there, you can choose any color you want - and WALLAH!, the table cell has a beautiful background color. I always choose these colors BEFORE adding text inside the cells. If you have text in a cell - and the new background color makes the text hard to read - just highlight the text and change the text color by using the standard text color tool at the TOP of the WORD PROGRAM - upper right. If this seems a bit tricky, you can play with it until you get it down pat. You can also review the help file within Word for useful tutorials on using tables. I hope this helped! If you have any questions, just email me and I will do my best to help you! Cheers!
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