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in addition to changing the records
within a table you can also customize
the way that the table looks and this
can help to make the table easier to
read the first thing we're going to do
is resize the cells in this example the
description field is too wide and I want
to adjust it so it will fit on the
screen to change the width of a field
just hover over a gridline and you
should see the cursor change to a cross
with arrows and then click and drag
until the width looks right
the problem with this is that now the
descriptions get cut off so I need to
make the rows taller so I can see the
entire description for each item and
you'll notice that when you change the
row height all of the rows in the table
will change to be the same height
sometimes you'll have some extra fields
that you don't really need to see all
the time and you can just hide them so
that you can focus on the fields that
you want just right-click the field name
and select hide fields if you want to
show them again right-click any of the
field names and go to unhide fields and
you'll be able to select the ones that
you want to see
normally the row colors will alternate
between white and some other color and
it's helps to make it easier to read if
you want you can change the color by
going to the alternate row color
drop-down arrow and that's found on the
Home tab in the text formatting group
and you'll probably want to choose a
light color so the text will have plenty
of contrast you can also control which
gridlines are shown and you can even
have no gridlines at all I'll go with
the horizontal gridlines and finally in
the bottom right corner of the text
formatting group you can click this
little arrow to go to the datasheet
formatting dialog box and here you have
some other formatting options that you
can choose including background color
and grid line color
and you can see a preview of the
formatting here
so experiment with the different
formatting options to create the view
that you're most comfortable with like
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