I'm creating an invoice for a pasta
company and I've entered all of the data
but it still feels like something's
missing
I think if it adds some more color it
would look a lot better and feel more
unified tables are a great way of doing
this because they allow you to quickly
change the background colors borders and
font colors all at the same time to get
started select the cells that you want
to include in your table
and then go to format as table
you'll see a list of all of the built-in
styles
and I think this one looks good
if you want your table to have headers
then make sure this box is checked
and here you can also change the
selection if you need to and then click
OK
and there's our table it already looks a
lot better and we can make some more
changes to it by clicking on it and then
going to the design tab
now let's say I needed to add a few more
items to this invoice and I want to make
sure that they are also included as part
of this table all I have to do is click
resize table
and then select a new range for the
table
and make sure to include the original
cells in your selection
you can also resize the table by just
clicking and dragging the bottom right
corner
I think I'd like to try some different
colors so I'll just go up to the table
Styles group and pick a different style
next to the styles you have several
different options to fine-tune the look
of your table
I'll just click the last column checkbox
to emphasize that column and I'll also
add a total row you'll probably need to
experiment with these a little bit
because they can look very different
depending on which table style you're
using
and there's one more feature I'd like
you to notice whenever you create a
table it will automatically add a sort
and filter drop-down arrow on each
column and this makes it easier to
organize the data within the table
so in addition to making your data look
better tables can also make it easier to
manage like what you just saw rated at a
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