Table Design and Table Layout tabs

The Table Design and Table Layout tabs appear, under the label Table Tools, when you select a table or click in a cell. Design is for the look of the table. Layout is for its structure.

Table Design

• Table Formats is a gallery of ready-made looks. See Make and edit tables.
• Fill has Cell Fill, which colors a cell or the whole table. See Make and edit tables.
• Borders has Line Color, Line Weight, and a Borders menu that draws lines on chosen sides. See Make and edit tables.
• Alignment holds Diagonals, which divides a cell into two halves, each with its own text, with a line from corner to corner. See Make and edit tables.

Table Layout

• Table has Select, for a cell, a row, a column, or the whole table, and View Gridlines. See Make and edit tables.
• Rows & Columns inserts rows and columns above, below, left, or right, and deletes the rows or columns of the selected cells, or the table. See Make and edit tables.
• Merge has Merge Cells, which joins the selected cells into one, and Split Cells. See Make and edit tables.
• Alignment puts text at the top, middle, or bottom of a cell, and left, center, right, or justified. Text Direction turns the text a quarter turn. Hyphenation sets whether long words break at the end of a line. Cell Margins sets the space around the text. The small arrow at the corner of the group opens Format Table. See Make and edit tables.
• Size has Height and Width boxes for the whole table, a Grow to Fit Text check box, Distribute Rows, and Distribute Columns. See Make and edit tables.
• Arrange controls text wrap, stacking order, grouping, alignment, and rotation. See Move, align, group, and layer objects.

Related

• Make and edit tables
• Format text
• Move, align, group, and layer objects