- [Instructor] In another video we made a table,
which you can see here in my document.
In this video, we're going to use various formatting tools
to make this table fit the specific design and layout
I want in my document.
Now first, it's important to understand
that when you need to format text in a table,
you can use the same formatting tools
that you would normally use.
So if I want to make a change to the text here
in this header line, I'm going to select it.
And naturally I'll go to the home ribbon
where I can use the font formatting tools.
So maybe I want to make that text bigger
or I can use the paragraph formatting tools.
So if I go into line spacing,
I can see that it's set to be double-spaced.
I want to switch it to single spacing,
which will remove a lot of the extra space
underneath that line.
But I also want to go back to that menu,
go to line spacing options
and you can see there's also some extra space
after the paragraph.
I want to set that to zero,
click okay and that also removes some space.
So I can make a lot of changes that way,
but I can also use some of the formatting tools
for the table itself.
Now of course, if the table is selected
or if your cursor is in one of the cells,
you have the special ribbons up here available
for the table itself.
The design ribbon and the layout ribbon.
I want to go to the layout ribbon,
make sure that my cursor is in the cell
that I want to work with.
And then I'll want to use one of these alignment tools
to align the text in that cell.
One really quick thing I can do is just choose
the center option here,
just to make sure that text is perfectly centered
in that cell.
So you can adjust the formatting of text and the table,
but you can do the same thing to a picture.
In fact, I could select a picture
and then do all of those same formatting changes.
I could set the line spacing and center it in the cell
just like I did with text.
So anything that's in a table can be formatted.
But let's apply some additional formatting attributes
to the table itself.
And first I want to take a look at these borderlines
between cells.
So, with the table active
or with my cursor somewhere in the table,
I want to go to the design ribbon.
And I'm looking for the options for the borders.
So I'm going to go into these menus.
And first I'm going to choose the type of line that I want,
then I can change the thickness of that line
and in this menu I can change the color of the line.
I'm going to choose something that really stands out.
Now that I've established that look,
I want to make sure the border painter is activated.
And then all I need to do is drag across the line
that I want to change and it applies that look to it.
You can see that there are even pre-made border styles,
so you can choose one of those.
Then go to the border painter drag across the line
that you want and make that change there.
But what I really want to do here
is make it look like there's no line
in between these cells at all.
And to do that, I can just go to this first menu
and choose no border.
Once again, I need to make sure the border painter
is active, then I can drag across that line.
And I'm going to do the same thing to this line here
and this line here.
And at first they don't really look too different.
But when we turn the border painter off,
you can see that effect kick in.
Now it looks like there's no dividing line between
these cells,
which I think looks pretty nice for the schedule
that we're working on here.
Okay, next I want to take a look at the background color
for my cells.
So I could click on an individual cell,
then I can go to that design ribbon and I can go to shading
and I could change the color of a cell.
So I'm going to set this one to a dark blue.
You could also do that to multiple cells at a time.
So if I drag across several cells to select those cells,
then I could go into shading and I could apply some shading
to several cells at the same time.
That looks pretty good,
but now that I've changed the color of this cell,
I want to change the color of this text.
And of course we can use the same text formatting options
we saw before.
I can select that text.
I can go to the home ribbon
and use my text formatting options
and I'm going to switch that text to be white.
All right, so I think that looks pretty good,
but there's one more option I want to see back here
in the design ribbon.
There are pre-made styles for your table
that you can apply with one click
just like you are applying styles to a text.
Just make sure your cursor is somewhere in the table.
And you can see all of the options here,
choose the style that you want
and it applies it to that entire table.
And of course if you don't like it,
you can go back and choose a different style.
And this might look pretty good for the table
that I'm trying to make.
And we're going to stop here.
You've got a lot of options for manipulating the design
of your table in the design ribbon and the layout ribbon.
Lots of room to explore here.