Tables

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Tables

Would you like to clearly arrange text, numbers or pictures next to each other in tabular form in a document? Then simply insert a table into the document.

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Of course, you could also use tabs if you only want to set up a simple list, but tables offer the following advantages:

Text is automatically wrapped to multiple lines within a table cell if it does not fit in. The height of the table row adjusts automatically.

You can easily select individual cells (or complete rows and columns) in tables, and then delete, copy, move or format their content.

Table cells can have borders, a grid of gutter lines or a shaded background.

You can even perform calculations with the contents of tables. For more information, see Calculations in the text.

In this chapter, you will learn everything you need to know about working with tables. This information covers the following topics:

Inserting tables

Ribbon tab "Table"

Moving in tables

Selecting table cells and cell contents

Deleting, copying, moving cell contents

Deleting and inserting table cells

Splitting and merging table cells

Formatting tables

Converting a table into text

Converting text into a table

Sorting tables

Sorting text

See the following pages for more information.