right now we're working with the piano
flyer I want to add my contact
information to the flyer so that anyone
interested in hiring me for piano
lessons can get in touch with me I could
simply type this information into a text
box but a table might also help me
arrange that information neatly and keep
my spacing organized now before we get
started let's move some of these text
boxes and the graphic out of the way we
can always format the publication later
going to move the title up we're going
to shrink the graphic and move it out of
the way we're going to bring this text
box over and bring this one up there are
several ways that you can insert a table
and publisher the method that is most
similar to other Microsoft applications
is to choose table from the main menu
and then insert and table I'm not going
to do this however because in publisher
there is an easier way so let's click
off of those menus and go over to the
objects toolbar and click the insert
table icon now as we move our cursor
toward the publication will see that it
changes to two crossed lines once we are
at the location in which we wish to add
the table will click the mouse and drag
it until the table is the desired size
and then we'll release the mouse button
the create table dialog box appears you
can see that we can change the number of
rows and columns so I'm going to change
that to be five rows and 2 columns we
can choose a table format if we'd like
currently there isn't a table formatting
selected but we have a variety that we
can choose from you can see how they
change in the sample window to the right
we have the checkbook register list
three we have numbers I like this one so
let's keep selected the list with title
one option and let's go ahead and click
ok now we have our table that wasn't
hard to insert at all let's go ahead and
zoom in to our table by clicking several
times on the plus button you'll notice
it zooms us right into our table since
that is the object that is selected now
see how the cursor is already blinking
in the first row now we can add text to
the table since we did insert a table
using a pre-formatted style the text we
enter into the cells will have some
formatting already applied to it the
text will be a certain predetermined
font style size color and alignment now
the font is a bit too small for me but
don't worry we can easily change that
later let's go ahead and get the rest of
our text entered you can press the tab
key on your keyboard to easily move to
the next cell
we'll enter our name phone number email
address and our location now we'll click
away from the table to deselect it and
you can see how the text appears as you
can see certain formatting and colors
appear by default when we insert a table
and text in publisher all of this can be
changed however we'll begin by changing
the formatting for all the texts in the
table and then see how we can customize
the text for individual cells to change
the default text let's select the text
for the entire table insert your cursor
at the beginning of the table and click
and drag it to select all the text now
that the text is selected we need to
change the default font let's go up to
the formatting toolbar and use the font
drop-down box and select verdanna near
the bottom
we can see that the font has changed in
the table now I think the text itself
could be a little larger font size so
let's select 16 font size from the
drop-down menu and now we can see that
the font size is different in our table
sometimes you may want to modify the
text in specific cells for example I'd
like my heading contact information to
stand out a little more let's click and
drag our mouse to select the entire
heading and we're going to leave the
font at verdanna but let's increase the
font size just a little bit on the
formatting toolbar from the drop-down
box let's select font size 20 the
heading is already bold by default and
we can select the center align button on
that same toolbar to Center the text and
we can deselect the text by clicking
anywhere else on the publication to see
more clearly the changes we've made
inserting a table and text and publisher
is easy to do and formatting the text is
basically the same as with every other
Microsoft application why don't you give
it a try