Word Tables Best Practices - 2023 - The ultimate guide

Word tables are powerful, flexible and fully customizable.
This video will help you learn how to use tables to your advantage.
It will also give you new ideas and may be, solve some problems as well.

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Contents
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00:00 - Introduction - why tables - data or layout
00:39 - View Gridlines vs Borders
01:38 - Add title above table
01:54 - Table in header
03:01 - Menus - Design and Layout
03:14 - Choose Style
03:56 - Add images to tables
04:24 - Add table inside a table
05:01 - Edit data inside a table
06:15 - Rearrange Rows
07:01 - How to fit the table
08:25 - Wrap text around tables
09:09 - Adjust row heights
09:52 - Paragraph spacing problem
10:50 - Row breaks across pages - solution
11:56 - Repeat Header Rows
13:13 - Same Column Widths
14:27 - Merge and Split
15:14 - Cell Alignment
16:30 - Borders and Shading
17:35 - Formulas in Tables
18:36 - Quick Tables
19:31 - Quick Access Toolbar
20:48 - Summary

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[MoMaryR]

Very good tutorial, thank you. I have a 6 page table of data which I need to edit often. My title/data description line prints ok on every page, however, when scrolling/editing in the middle of a page I don't see that title line. I would like to freeze that line so it's there no matter where I am in the table. Can you help please?

[pulgurtasekhar]

Sir, you are a Microsoft Wizard. This video is complete and comprehensive video n tabes. I am saving and sharing your videos with like-minded people. May I request a video on captions to Tables and Figures and their numbering

[abdulbasit]

That's really the video that I am looking for sometime. But now I am working on Google Docs and here I miss these formula tricks. Do you have any plan in future to make a video about Formula in Google Docs?

[asadansari]

when I am trying to choose two columns out of total three columns to distribute column widh, layout option is greyed out, please help

[hoshangd]

Sir, can I create the table in excel and then copy to word and then use all these options. Will it work the same way.?

[asadansari]

How do I fit other table inside a table to fit snugly, not able to do that can you help

[sandeshpadigela]

what great videos you pick up on real-time scenarios and small issues which enhance productivity, I have experienced most of my 16 years of corporate while doing SOP which is critical, but now I find many solutions which never been known.

[garrygilmour]

Can the navigation pane be used for tables?

[Thukai-Operater]

Why did I not find this video earlier 😢
But now 😊

[johnnybee]

Thank You, this tutorial was exactly what I was looking for.

[MuhammadAmin-xzvn]

Thanks for your sharing ❤, but how about Overlapping Tables😢, help me . When i use header and the table make overlapping

[rkrajhan]

Dr Nitin, A great detailed Microsoft Word video...that too about tables....very rare & super useful....Thanks

[sandeshpadigela]

One feedback Udemy course of Pivot table is not available in the link that you kept. I have one question in the Pivot table when we have so many fields in values 20 later another 6 fields are added, and I am struggling to select manually and rearrange, is there any better solution, in fact, values columns are not visible to see all 20 fields.

[denisekobrin]

This is the best video on tables that I have ever seen. I learned so much and will look for more of your videos. Thanks so much!

[niranjanself]

Dr. Nitin : You have given a great video, offen i was using the requirement like aligning, breaking table etc manually by taking a lot of time and without much satisfaction. This video gives a professional approach to deal with the problems in word tables. It is a must to study these word table features to enhance the efficiency of the users. This video is definitely designed for it. Thank you Dr. Nitin once again for giving an excellent video.

[LisaWagner-mj]

🤯 I work in Word all day long! So many little tips that make life easier!! How did I not know?

[hajranaashkar]

Dr Nitin Paranjape, I am in short of words to thank you. You so so prolific.

[suresh]

Hello Sir !

Greetings from Copenhagen, Denmark.

Your videos are extremely useful and save a lot of time for me at work. I have been using Word for at least 3 decades and have done so many things using cumbersome manual ways that don't always yield pleasing results. Thanks to your videos, I have now discovered some tools and options that were always staring at me in the face but I had not bothered to explore or use.

Once again, hats off to your excellent work and do let me know if you ever make it to Denmark !

Cheers

V.Suresh

[WonderMoo]

Life saver short cut, ROCKS. SHIFT ALT up arrow. A thousand thanks 🎉