Borders and Shading for Word Table
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Borders and Shading for Word Table
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Borders and Shading for Word Table
Borders and Shading for Word Table
Borders and Shading for Word Table
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After you enter the text, put the rows and columns in place, and make them the right size, the fun begins. Now you can dress up your table and make it look snazzy.
Almost everything you can do to a document you can do to a table by selecting parts of it and choosing menu commands or clicking buttons. You can change text fonts, align data in the cells in different ways, and even import a graphic into a cell.
You can also play with the borders that divided the rows and columns and shade columns, rows, and cells by filling them with gray shades or a black background, read on to find out how to do these tricks and also how to center a table or align it with the right page margin.
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What's on this page... Formatting a Table with AutoFormat Adding your own Borders Adding your own Shading & Color |
Adding Your Own Borders
Instead of relying on Word's Table AutoFormat command for borders and shading for Word table, you can draw borders of any kind, yourself to any part of the table you want.In doing so, you'd have to use the Tables and Borders toolbar buttons, but this is easier than you might think.
Make sure the Tables and Borders toolbar is visible on your screen.
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Click
the Tables and Borders button on the Standard toolbar to display
the Tables and Borders toolbar.
Tables and Borders button |
 Tables and Borders toolbar You can also go to View ► Toolbars ► Tables and Borders to turn this toolbar on or off. |
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You can add any borders and shading for Word table using the Tables and Borders toolbar.
To add different types of borders to your table, follow these steps:
| 1. | Select the part of the table that you want to decorate
with borders. For example, to put a border along the top or bottom of a row, select the row. |
| 2. | From the Tables and Borders toolbar use the following buttons: |
| LINES STYLE Click the down-arrow attached to the Line Style button and choose a line, dashed line, double line, or wiggly line for the border. Choose No Border if you don't want a border or if you are removing one that is already there.  Line Style button |
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| LINE WEIGHT Click the down-arrow attached to the Line Weight button and select a thickness for the line that you want to draw.  Line Weight button |
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BORDER COLOR Click the down-arrow attached to the Border Color button and click one of the color boxes on the menu. Choose More Line Colors... to choose a custom color for your border. Use the Automatic choice to remove colors and gray shades.  Border Color button |
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BORDER POSITION Click the down arrow beside the Border Position button and choose one of the border buttons on the menu. Click No Border to remove borders. For example, click the Top Border button to put a border along the top of the part of the table you selected. Or click the Inside Border button to put the border on the interior lines of the part of the table you selected.  Border Position button |
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After you make a choice from a menu on the Tables
and Borders toolbar, the choice you made appears
on the button that is used to open the menu. Choose Blue on the Border Color menu, for example, and the Border Color button turns blue. If the choice you want to make from a menu happens to be the last choice you made, you can click the button instead of opening the menu. |
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| see also... |
| Using AutoFormat | Add Shading & Color |
| and... |
| Text in Word Table |
| Sort a Word Table |
| Word Tables |
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