Tables and Reveal Formatting

A table is composed of columns (vertical) and rows (horizontal). Where a column and row meet, a cell is formed similar to a cell in Microsoft Excel.

Creating a Table:

Place the insertion point where you want the table to appear

1. From the Table menu, select Insert " Table...
2. The Insert Table dialog box appears.
3. In the Insert Table dialog box, type the number of columns and rows that you want for your table
   An empty table appears on your screen and you are ready to begin adding information.
   NOTE: Your table will appear with borders; if you want to modify or remove the borders, see the Adding Borders section of the Enhancing Tables document.
   If you have already typed the information for a table, you do not have to retype it into a new table. You can convert the existing text into a table. Word converts special characters such as paragraph marks, tabs, commas, or periods into the rows and columns of a table.
4. Select the text that you want to convert to a table
5. From the Table menu, select Convert " Text to Table... The Convert Text to Table dialog box appears.

Drawing Button Option

1. From the Table menu, select Draw Table
2. Your cursor turns into a pencil.
3. Click and drag your pencil until the outline of the table is the size you want
4. To draw vertical and horizontal lines, click and drag the pencil within the table
5. To turn off the Draw Table command, click DRAW TABLE

To correct a mistake:
On the Tables and Borders toolbar, click ERASER
Your pointer turns into an eraser.

Reveal Formatting Task Pane
You can use the new Reveal Formatting task pane in Word 2002 to modify the formatting or to find blocks of text with similar formatting.

1. Select the text you want to examine or reformat.
2. From the Format menu, select Reveal Formatting.

To change any formatting properties, click one of the underlined commands from within the task pane, and then change any options you want in the dialog box that appears.

To show formatting marks, such as paragraph marks and tabs, select the Show all formatting marks check box.

To format a text selection like the text that surrounds it, select the text. In the Selected text box, click the arrow, and then click Apply Formatting of Surrounding Text.

Track Changes
Double-click the TRK text in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If TRK is black, Word is tracking changes.

To turn On In Word 2002: Tools > Track Changes.

Hiding the tracked changes

On the Reviewing toolbar, choose Final. This displays your document as if you had accepted all the tracked changes in the document. It hides (but does not remove) the tracked changes.

On the Reviewing toolbar, choose Original. This displays your document as if you had rejected all the tracked changes in the document. It hides (but does not remove) the tracked changes.

Accept or reject tracked change
To accept a tracked change click within the change and then on the Reviewing toolbar, click the Accept Change button (it's the one with the blue tick). Or, right-click on the tracked change and choose Accept Insertion or Accept Deletion or Accept Format Change etc. The same steps can be followed to reject a tracked change.

To delete a tracked change, either accept it or reject it.

Print Tracked Changes

From the Print Selection under File select in the "Print What" box, and choose Document showing Markup to print tracked changes. To print without showing the tracked changes - in the "Print What" box, choose Document.