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Table Cells: Merge and Split Table Cells

Add a table to your PowerPoint slide and then populate the table with content and then what comes next? Probably you need to add or remove rows and columns. That’s the case with most people who work with tables. But very few people realize that the table cells can be made larger or smaller without influencing the entire row or column and that’s something that can be easily achieved by merging or splitting cells in your existing table. This is essentially true for tables that have two header rows, or even with tables that have a long phrase in the header row.

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Microsoft Windows

Merge and Split Table Cells in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Merge and Split Table Cells in PowerPoint 2011

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Table Cells: Table Style Options

Create a new table in PowerPoint and you’ll find that it already includes some sort of default formatting. More often than not, you’ll find that the table already has banded rows and the header row highlighted. While PowerPoint decides to turn on some of these Table Options, there are some that you must manually enable. All put together, you can play with 6 distinct options that let you control the way through which table elements can be made to stand apart.

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Microsoft Windows

Table Style Options in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Table Options in PowerPoint 2011

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Table Cells: Text Alignment within Table Cells

An individual cell within a table acts just like any other text box as far as its content or even appearance is concerned. Therefore, all text alignment options used for text containers work with table cells too with a few exceptions.

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Microsoft Windows

Text Alignment within Table Cells in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Text Alignment within Table Cells in PowerPoint 2011

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Richard Goring

      Richard Goring is a Director at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points.

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Table Cells: Select Table Cells, Rows, and Columns

While it is easy to work with tables in PowerPoint, you will always need to select some particular part of the table to work with this means you will have to select an individual table cell, or even separate rows and columns while performing various tasks such as populating tables with content, or adding and removing table rows/columns, or merging and splitting table cells. Sometimes you will also need to select contiguous cells in both rows and columns, or even the entire table itself.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Select Table Cells, Rows, and Columns in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Select Table Cells, Rows, and Columns in PowerPoint 2011

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Tagged as: 12-03, PowerPoint Tutorials, Table Cells, Tables