- You can also bring text into PowerPoint
in the form of a table.
Now this has organized rows and columns,
and it's very much like a spreadsheet.
So let's take a look
at how to create tables in PowerPoint.
I'm going to go to the bottom of my presentation
and we're going to create a new slide.
So I'm going to select new slide,
pull this down and we're going to go blank.
So we have a blank slide and into that,
we want to place a table.
So I'm going to select insert table.
Now when I hold this down, you can see
that I can select how many rows and columns
I want in this table.
So I'm going to make this
three rows by four columns.
And when I let go,
it brings me over to what's called
the design menu.
Now in this, I can change the look
and feel of this,
I can turn on and off things
such as the header row,
whether or not the rows are banded or not,
and so on.
So I'm just going to leave it this blue color here,
and then I'm going to left click
into this top left cell and start typing.
So I'm going to type in some headers here,
we have the product, and then we can say design,
say test and release.
And then I'm going to input some product names.
I'm just going to go ahead and paste some texts
instead of typing it.
And notice how this text here,
because it's a little bit too big, it wraps.
And so we can actually resize these cells
if we want.
So I'm going to make these a little bit smaller.
So I'm going to hover over each of these bars
and we're going to basically make something
that looks like this.
And now into each one of these, we can put,
say an X,
to indicate that they're designed and tested
and so on.
Now, if we want, we can format these cells
so I can left click and drag and highlight them,
go into my home menu,
and then over here by text,
I could say center these, if I wanted to.
Now let's say we wanted
to add one more column here.
Well, we can do that
using what's called the layout menu.
Now when you select the table,
we get two menus here.
We get design, which we saw and layout.
So I'm going to select layout
and you'll see,
this is how we actually change the size and shape
of the cells as well as how many cells we have.
So let's say
I wanted to add some more columns here,
so let's go ahead
and click and drag over this release column,
to highlight it,
and then I'm going to select insert left,
and that adds one more column to the left.
And so we could call this,
say Mfg for manufacturing.
Now, if I wanted to add something below this,
I can certainly just select the table itself,
and if I do insert below,
it will just insert below the last one.
So let's go ahead and do that.
And so now I have another column
and I'm just going to go ahead
and paste in some text here.
And then we can also add in some additional data.
Now, once I have the table,
I can resize it
very similarly to how I can resize a text box,
and I can continue to modify
the way it looks and behaves
by using the design and layout menus.