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In addition to changing the records
within a table,

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you can also customize the way that the
table looks.

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And this can help to make the table easier
to

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read.

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The first thing we're going to do is resize
the

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cells.

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In this example, the Description field is
too wide,

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and I want to adjust it so it will fit on
the screen.

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To change the width of a field, just hover
over a

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gridline,

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and you should see the cursor change to
a cross with arrows.

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And then click and drag until the width looks
right.

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The problem with this is that now the descriptions
get cut off.

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So I need to make the rows taller so I can
see the

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entire description for each item.

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And you'll notice that when you change the
row

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height,

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all of the rows in the table will change
to be the same height.

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Sometimes, you'll have some extra fields that
you

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don't really need to see all the time,

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and you can just hide them so that you can
focus on the fields that you want.

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Just right-click the field name, and select
Hide

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Fields.

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If you want to show them again, right-click
any of

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the field names and go to Unhide Fields.

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And you'll be able to select the ones that
you

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want to see.

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Normally, the row colors will alternate between
white and some other color,

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and this helps to make
it easier to read.

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If you want, you can change the color by going
to

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the Alternate Row Color drop-down arrow.

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And that's found on the Home tab in the Text
Formatting group.

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And you'll probably want to choose a light
color

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so the text will have plenty of contrast.

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You can also control which gridlines are shown,
and you can even have no gridlines at all.

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I'll go with the horizontal gridlines.

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And finally, In the bottom-right corner of
the

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Text Formatting group,

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you can click this little arrow to go to the
Datasheet Formatting dialog box.

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And here you have some other formatting options
that you can choose,

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including background color
and gridline color.

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And you can see a preview of the formatting
here.

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Experiment with the different formatting options,
to create the view you're most comfortable

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with.