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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