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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 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