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Adding and removing columns and rows

Adding and removing columns and rows - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Adding and removing columns and rows

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It's almost guaranteed when you create tables in a Microsoft Word document, at some point, you may need to go back and make some adjustments. Perhaps you need additional rows, or columns, or maybe you have too many, and you need to remove some. That's what we're going to investigate right now, as we continue working with our Asparagus file. If you jumped to this lesson, you can get caught up by opening up Asparagus5. We're going to work with the table on page 1: our ingredient list. As soon as we click inside a table, you'll notice that the Table Tools appear at the end of the ribbon with two tabs: Design, and Layout. Let's say we wanted an extra row above the first row. Well, all we have to do is make sure our cursor is flashing in the first row when we go up to the Layout tab, into the Rows & Columns section, and you'll notice options for inserting rows, and columns, above your flashing cursor, below, and same thing for columns, only left, and right. We want one above, so watch what…

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