Tips, Tricks, and Answers

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Adjusting Alignment of Table Cells. Place text in the cells of a table, and that text is normally aligned according to the paragraph formatting that existed before the table was created. If you want, you can adjust the text alignment to anything you want.

Distributing Table Rows. When designing a table, you may want the height of each row to be evenly distributed across the vertical space you've assigned to the table. Word makes this adjustment easy.

Specifying the Height of Table Rows. Word normally makes table rows just the right height to fit whatever size of text you are using. You can specify different row heights for each row of your table, if you so desire.

Using AutoFit to Adjust Column Width. Need to adjust the width of a bunch of table columns according to what is in the columns? Word provides a tool to do this, called AutoFit. Here's how to apply it to your tables.

Vertically Spacing Rows in a Table. One way that you can add vertical space around information in a table is to adjust paragraph spacing. This tip illustrates how you can best use this technique.