By default, a table is created with the Table Grid style, which includes a basic black border around each cell in the table. Word includes many built-in styles that provide more visual appeal. Show
The Table Styles group will show a few table styles, but to see the rest, you’ll need to expand the gallery. The style is applied to the table, changing the borders, shading, and colors. You could create a new style by selecting New Table Style or modify an existing one by selecting Modify Table Style and choosing which formatting you’d like. To remove a Table Style, select Clear from the More Table Styles menu. You can further customize a table style by changing the table style options.
The special formatting applied by each option is controlled by the style that’s been applied to the table. You can customize these formatting options by clicking the Table Styles More button, then selecting Modify Table Style. You can control how text is aligned within a table cell, just like you’d align text on the page.
You could also select the entire table if you want to align all the text together. There are nine alignment options, letting you align the content to either side of a cell, any corner, or center it in the middle of the cell. The text in the selected cell realigns to the selected side or corner. You can also select Text Direction to change the text from left-to-right to top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top. You can also adjust the margins between cell borders and the text within those cells.
You can select the entire table to adjust all the margins at once. In the Table Options dialog box, we can adjust the margins for the selected cell or cells. The margin affects how much space there is between the edge of the cell and the contents of that cell. Microsoft Word adopted the Ribbon User Interface (UI) with the introduction of Office 2007. This page explores some of the variations on that Ribbon through the versions. In composing this page, a deliberate choice was made to not resize images. This makes for a wide page, especially on mobile devices. Narrower versions with resized images are available as narrow version and very narrow version. They may not be updated as often. I was not a great lover of the Ribbon; it has grown on me. MS tells us that it is easier for beginners to use, and they may be right. For experienced users, there is a tremendous learning curve. From Word 2007 on, it has been possible to modify the Ribbon. In Word 2007 this required an ability to code in vba and XML. In the later versions it has been possible to make much more limited modifications through the interface. All versions since 2007 have included the Quick Access Toolbar as the only easily modifiable toolbar. This is in sharp contrast to Word 97-2003 where all of the menus and toolbars were easily modified from within the interface. For a start on modifying the ribbon using XML and vba, I recommend Greg Maxey's site, starting with Customize the Ribbon (It doesn't take rocket science) . An essential book, and not just for Word 2007, is RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon - by Robert Martin, Ken Puls, and Theresa Hennig. What I will do here is show some variations over time on the tabs I commonly used in Word. Incidentally, I recently discovered that if you hover your mouse pointer over the Ribbon and use the wheel on the mouse, it will scroll horizontally through the tabs! The non-context tabs (always available): - - - - - - - - - - Some of the tabs: - - - - - - - Other: (legacy) Problems with Ribbon display are discussed at the . - - Not Ribbon "Tabs" - Backstage - The Office Button and File Button on far left
Minimizing the Ribbon - making more room to see your document
Problems with Display of the RibbonCommands Gone - Described Using the Following Terms (Word 2007 and later)The File Tab has Become the Default Tab (Word 2010- current) The Commands are all gone
The Ribbon is Gone, but I am not in Reading View (Word 2013 and later)
The Ribbon is Missing and I am not in Reading View nor is AutoHide available - Word 2007 and later
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