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A reader recently wrote: " [In regard to the article ' Insert Rows and Columns in Tables in MS Word '] ... your article forgets to mention that one must right-click on a cell above or below where the inserted row is to go. There is no Table | Insert ... menu item in Word 2007. I appreciate what you are doing at this site but this article was confusing because of the omission." My response: I do apologize if you were confused by my article. You are quite correct; I did not mention that you could right-click on a row above or below to insert a row. Note that I said "could" and not "must." ... (view more)

There may be times when you will want to have numbering in your table. Sometimes the numbering is an important part of your table and other times it is useful in identifying and referencing certain rows. Luckily, this is very easy to accomplish in ... all versions of MS Word from version 2000 forward. Follow the steps below to learn how to insert consecutive numbers in your table rows: Launch MS Word if it is not already open. Create a table with five rows and five columns by doing the following: Click on Table | Insert | Table | 5 rows | 5 columns. Position your cursor above the first column ... (view more)

Both rows and columns of a worksheet can be outlined or grouped. Outlining provides a way to organize details. Outlines can be collapsed or expanded to hide or show detail within the data list. Once defined, the group of rows or columns can be ... expanded or collapsed to display or hid the detail contained within them. Follow the steps below to group rows or columns in a worksheet: Select the rows or columns to be grouped. Choose Data | Group and Outline | Group. To remove the grouping follow these steps: Select the rows or columns to be ungrouped. Choose Data | Group and Outline | Ungroup. ... (view more)

You may think you can delete a row or column by selecting it and pressing Delete. But what that does is remove the text, leaving empty cells behind. To remove a row or column completely, you must select it and then choose a menu selection. Choose ... Table | Delete, and then specify Table, Columns, Rows, or certain cells. Right-click and choose Delete from the shortcut menu. If you have a row selected, the shortcut menu will say Delete Row; if you have a column selected, it will say Delete Column. When a column is deleted, the column widths may adjust themselves. The easiest way to delete an ... (view more)

You know how to use Tabs in MS Word, but more often you will use tables to align text horizontally. Tables are used whenever you must keep items side by side. You do this by laying out a grid. The best thing about tables is that in the grid you can ... align any amount of text -- sentences, paragraphs or even pictures -- side by side. When you want to keep text side by side in a document, create a table. This grid-like structure can contain short text, such as a number, long text, a sentence, paragraph, or several paragraphs. A table keeps the items properly aligned in columns and rows, so you ... (view more)

When your spreadsheet has labels in the top row or left column to describe the data in the cells, you can freeze those rows and columns so that they always appear on screen even when you scroll down or to the right. Open MS Excel and in the first ... row type your headings (i.e. Category, Title, Author, Quantity, Costs, etc.) In the left-most column, type other data labels (i.e. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sci-Fi., etc.) When you use the Window | Freeze Panes command, everything above the current row or to the left of the current column is frozen in place. This way, it's always visible to you, even ... (view more)