Google Docs Fundamentals

Google Docs Fundamentals
Tables
Tables are very useful for organizing information. When
we insert tables into documents they are always in-line.
Remember when we started adding images. In-line images
were the automatic option when new images were
inserted. Images have text wrap options available, but
these options are not available for tables. Tables will
automatically wrap text above and below. Tables cannot
be moved unless you copy and paste the table to a new
location on the document.
Once you have a table in place there are several tools
to help format the table and the contents of the table.
Let’s place a simple table into our document. Click once
in the location where the table will be placed. Make
sure you have enough room on the page for all the
information in the table. We can make the table longer
but it might run across pages and this doesn’t look very
good.
Click on Insert in the menu and move over the table option.
A fly out menu will open with a grid. This grid will
help you select the number of columns and rows for the
table. If you don’t know how may rows or columns you
will need, it’s okay, we’ll learn how to add or remove
columns and rows later. For this example let’s create a
table with four rows and four columns.
When the table is inserted each row and column is
uniform in size and the entire table takes up the space
between the page margins. The cursor appears in the
first cell. Each box of a table is called a cell. The top row
is usually used for the column headers. These are the
titles for the columns of information.
This table will hold data for the Apollo Lunar Landings.
We’ll place the Apollo mission, landing date and location.
Our table has one too many columns. Let’s delete the
last column.
Click once on the top cell in the last column. Once the
cursor is in the cell, right click to get a contextual menu
Select delete column from the menu options.
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