The Design tab, which appears automatically when the active cell is in a table, offers multiple formatting options. This video shows you how to access the many formatting features to apply to tables.
- [Instructor] When the active cell is within a table, … the table design tab appears in the ribbon … and we see some choices in this group … called Table Style Options. … Now, a minor change most of the time, … but sometimes more significant, is first column. … Usually what this does … is it makes the text in the left-most column, … this case, column A, bold print. … And there's also one for last column. … That's the column on the right. … To see some differences, … we could choose a different table style off to the right. … Remember there's 61 different ones of these. … Now we can't see the last column too readily … unless we make column J a lot wider. … I'll do that temporarily. … And then, with both first column and last column … having been selected, let's explore some of the styles here. … And we don't see a lot of change taking place … until we get to some of these choices here. … Now, I'm not making a strong case … for saying this is a great feature, … but at least it's a distinctive look, …
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Video: Use the Design tab to control table formatting