Introduction | Creating and Inserting a Table | Drawing a Table | The Tables & Borders Toolbar
Inserting Text & Images Into a Table | Modifying a Table

Draw Table:
If you'd like to draw your own table for scratch, go to the menu bar and select Table >> Draw Table.

Once this option is selected, the "Tables and Borders" toolbar will pop up (we will cover this toolbar more in-depth in a little bit).

Click on the first icon on this toolbar, the "Draw Table" tool (looks like a pencil drawing a line), to begin drawing a table. Then, navigate to the location in your document where you want to draw your table. Using the "Draw Table" tool, click and drag to form the outside border of the table, determining its width. When you are finished, let go of the mouse button so that the outside border of the table can be rendered.

You can draw rows and columns by using the "Draw Table" tool to draw vertical lines to create columns, and horizontal lines to form rows. Continue to draw your table as you see fit.

Now that you have the initial table inserted into your Word document (either by using the "Insert Table" or "Draw Table" method), you can begin to modify your table as needed.

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