Now, let us get back to our contextual tabs up at the top. I am sure you are eager to try your table style here so let us take a look. I am going to drop down my pull down menu here. Once again, we have all kinds of pre-created table styles. This makes formatting your tables effortless. There we are. I have some additional options if I want to be able to manipulate the Shading. Now, notice that the Shading is only being applied to my last cell. That is because I have left my cursor inside that cell. Now, if I go and make a selection inside my table, for example my header row and all I am doing is dragging from one cell to another cell, and I open up my Shading menu, I can set my color that way. I also have a border option up at the top. I am going to select my entire table and to do that, I am just going to click and drag all the way across my table here. I will drop down my borders. I can set a border on the bottom, the top, no borders, all borders. I am going to go with outside borders. And of course notice that because I clicked outside of my table that my contextual tabs disappear from the top. I click back inside my table and they reappear.
Now, let us do a little bit more formatting here. I am going to start with my header row here. I am going to click and drag across my header row and on my Home tab, I am going to use my Font formatting options which you have seen earlier. I will change my Font here for example and my Size. I also want to adjust the thickness of the boarder around my table so I am going to select my table again here and up underneath my Design tab and I am going to head down to Borders and all the way to Borders and Shading. Inside this dialog box, the first thing that I am going to do is change the color of my outside border. I will change this to medium gray here and I am also going to adjust my thickness here. I will go 2 ¼ here and I want to adjust that on the left and the right and the top and the bottom and then okay. Now, my table updates, up underneath my Table Styles drop down menu, I am going to head down to New Table Style and this is going to allow me to save all of the formatting that I have just applied as a New Table Style.
I am going to give my Table Style a name, "Web Browsers," and that new style is added to my list of Table Styles. Underneath my Layout tab, I can do such things as delete content out of my table, add additional content and also merge content. So let us add on an extra row. I am going to click inside my Avant cell, I am going to insert a row below, I am going to type in, "Based on information provided in January 2007" and I am going to highlight this entire row and what I want to do is merge those three cells right across the bottom of my table. So I head up to my merged category here and I am going to choose Merge Cells. The last thing I will do is add a little bit of height to my header row. So I select my header row here and up at the top underneath Cell Size, I am going to increase my height just a little bit there. And then finally, I will adjust the alignment of my cell contents. I can center align it or of course right align it but I want the text to sit in the center of this cell vertically as well as horizontally so I go with this guy here. And there we are.
The last thing that I will show you in regards to tables is something new in Word 2007 called Quick Tables. I am going to scroll up in my document and find the spot where I would like to insert the table and once again, I will give myself a little bit of room here. And to my Insert tab, open up my Table pull down and all the way down at the bottom I have Quick Tables. Quick Tables are preformatted tables that Word has created here for me. And again, the further down you will get, the more elaborate they tend to get. I am going to insert a Tabular List Table, single click on it and there is my Quick Table. Again, my design and my layout tabs appear where I can format my Quick Table. Click outside of you Quick Table and you are done.
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