Table: Creating & Customizing

Enter Text into the Table

To fill your Word 2007 tables with text, place the cursor in the cell where you wish to enter the information and simply start typing.

When you type in the cell, all the text fits into a single cell and cell grows taller to hold long bits of text.

You can use various keys to perform special functions for enter a text and moving around in a table.

To create a table, simply follow these Steps:

1. Tab: Press Tab to move to the next cell. This moves you from cell to cell, from left to right.

2. Pressing Tab in the last column moves you down to the next row.

3. Pressing the Tab key in the table's last, lower-right cell automatically adds another row to the table.

4. Shift+Tab: Press Shift+Tab to move backward to the previous cell.

5. Arrow keys: The up, down, left, and right keys move you around within the table, as well as within any text in a cell.

6. Enter: The Enter key adds a new paragraph to a cell.

7. Shift+Enter: The Shift+Enter key combination can break up long lines of text in a cell with a soft return.

8. Ctrl+Tab: Press Ctrl+Tab rather than Tab to use any tabs or indentation within a cell.