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Merging and splitting cells - Microsoft Word Tutorial
From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training
Merging and splitting cells
When you first create a table here in Microsoft Word, you choose the number of rows and columns, and then when you look at the columns, each one has the same number of rows, and when you look at the rows, each one has the same number of columns. That's the default, but there is a way to get around that. You can merge cells together, and even split them up in a table to add some customization. We're going to continue working with our Asparagus file, Asparagus7, if you've jumped to this lesson, and need to get caught up. On Page 1, we have our Ingredient List. When we added the new row to type in Ingredient List, maybe that should be centered across the table, so we select it, and we go up to centering here in the Paragraph section, and it's actually centered in the column, not in the table, and there's this line between Column 1 and 2. This is an ideal opportunity for us to actually merge these two cells together into one big one, so let's do that. We'll click anywhere in the first…
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Creating new tables from scratch4m 43s
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Converting existing text to a table2m 7s
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Formatting table appearance5m 17s
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Using Quick Tables2m 45s
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Adding and removing columns and rows3m 48s
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Sorting data in a table2m 27s
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Merging and splitting cells2m 55s
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Converting a table to text2m 28s
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Inserting an Excel table5m 41s
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