MS Word Legal and Corporate- It’s Okay - We Can Do This Table…

MS Word Legal and Corporate- It’s Okay - We Can Do This Table…

Scenario:  Secretary needs to input a table with 8 columns in Portrait.  This table is in the back of the document as Exhibit A.  Her main concern is getting the table in portrait with the boundaries of a 1 inch left and right margin.   We can do this.  Let’s go over a few things:

  • We will make sure that we insert a new section break for this Exhibit. We need the new Section for a few reasons.  

  • Reason 1: We need to insert a new page number system namely A-1. A and hyphen typed in manually and the “1” is auto generated.  

  • Reason 2: If we cannot get the table to fit within the boundaries of 1 inch left and right margins, we will then drop the left and right margins to 0.5 left and right for “this Section” only.

  • So, back to the table. Go to Insert Table and look for “Insert Table” again in the Insert Table Dialog Box. You want 8 columns and 20 rows.

  • In “Print Layout View” a little target symbol comes up on the left side of the Table. Click on it to select the entire Table.

  • With the entire table selected, use “Control Alt U” to remove all of the border lines. Go to Home and bring the font down to 9, and still under home, go to Paragraph and get rid of Before and After spacing making them both 0. Do not leave as “Auto” since Auto means 0.6. If you want 0.6 Before or After then fine, but at least you know what it means.

  • Now you can start to key in the table and if you have space issues, select the table with the Target Symbol and bring the Font down to 8 and go from there.

Hope this article gives you some strategies.

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