Presentations Glossary

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.

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

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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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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Table Cells: Distribute Table Rows and Columns

Tables can make your data or other content look organized and make it easy for your audiences to quickly understand how the content in one or more cells relates to the content in other cells. However, even with all this organization built-in within the tabular structure, tables still need aesthetics. A table on your slide looks good when its rows and columns are arranged and sized in a proper manner, and the table cell content is aligned well.

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

Distribute Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Distribute Table Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2011

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