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You can easily add text to table cells, and you can modify this text as you would any other paragraph text. For example, you can change the font, add bullets, or add indents to table text. You can change the text properties of a single table cell, or of multiple table cells simultaneously. In addition, you can add tab stops to table cells so that text is shifted away from the cell margins.
When you type text in a new table, you can choose to automatically adjust the size of table cells.
| To type text in a table cell | |
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Click the Table tool
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Click a cell.
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Type text in the cell.
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You can select text in a cell by pressing Ctrl + A.
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| To change the properties of text in table cells | |
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Using the Table tool, click a table.
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Hold down Ctrl, and click the table cells that contain text to be formatted.
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Click Text  Text properties, and specify the settings you want in the Text
properties docker.
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For more information about formatting text, see Formatting text.
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To change the text properties for an entire row, column, or table
simultaneously, you must first select the table component or table. For more
information, see To select a table, row, or column.
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| To insert a tab stop in a table cell | |
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With the Table tool pointer inserted in a cell, click Text Insert formatting code
Tab.
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Another way to insert a tab stop is by pressing the Tab key. To use this
method, you must set the Tab key to insert tab stops. For information about
changing the Tab key options, see To change the navigational direction of the
Tab key.
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| To automatically resize table cells when you type | |
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Click the Pick tool
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Click Options on the property bar, and enable the Automatically resize cells
while typing check box.
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This option can be applied to new tables that do not yet have text or other
content.
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If a table already contains text, only cells to which new text is added will be
resized.
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