Hey, welcome back.
This is Cindy again.
We are in module 6 where we’re talking about tables and we’re all the way down to section
3 where I want to go through how to add rows and columns to your table.
You have the ability in any table to add additional rows or additional columns anywhere in the
table.
One of the things you’ll need to know is before you start adding rows or columns here’s
how you’re going to select within a table.
If you put your mouse above any column notice that there’s a down arrow right above that
column.
And when you click you’ll select the column.
If you need multiple columns then all you have to do is go ahead and click and drag
across like this and you’ll get multiple columns.
But you’ve got to have that black down arrow that you see.
The way you’re going to select a row is get outside of your table in the selection
bar and select a row.
And the way you know you have an entire row selected is right here on the end you have
something called an End of Row Marker.
Let me show you what those look like.
I’m going to turn on my non-printing characters for a moment and you’ll see at the end of
each cell is an end of cell marker and at the end of the row is an end of row marker.
And that’s important that you recognize because if you just drag across your cells
like this that’s not an entire row.
That’s five cells.
Just be aware of that.
Let me go ahead and turn those back off again.
Let’s say that I’d like to add a column to the right of this table so it’ll be on
the end.
Where would the column go because remember when you put in the table to begin with each
margin the table meets on each margin?
It’s actually going to make a few of the columns a little bit smaller when we do this
and we may have to resize them.
Here’s how this is going to work.
I’m going to select the last column and you’ll notice a couple of things I can do.
You’ll notice that right here is an Insert option and I can actually insert my column
to the right of the one I have selected.
I also want you to know that if you right click in the highlighted area you can insert
and this gives you a choice to insert your column to the left or to the right.
And one more way to do this, if you’re under the Layout tab, you’re under the Table Tools
contextual tab and the Layout tab here you can actually insert your column here where
it says Insert Left or Insert Right.
In this case we’re trying to put one to the right of the one we have selected.
So I’m just going to choose Insert Right and there it is.
Notice how it made this column a little bit smaller so now this is word wrapping.
You can kind of see that Item Name is a little bit smaller, but I do have my last column.
I’d like to call this one Total.
And in a little while we’ll do some calculations where we can have it total across for us.
Let’s add a row.
I’d like to put a row between the first and second one that I have here so I’m going
to select the bottom row and I’m going to go back up here where it says Insert and I’m
going to insert a row above the one I have selected.
And now there’s my new row.
Let me go ahead and put some information in here.
We’ll say this one is Corinthian Pink Paper.
It’s number 1586.
There’s 56 of these at $2.98 apiece and then later we’ll calculate.
So you can always put in your columns to the right or left and your rows above or below.
That’s actually how you’re going to put in your columns and rows.
What I’d like to do now is go ahead and talk to you a little bit about how to format
your table so that your header row stands out and some other things in here.
So I will
see you shortly.