Chapter 9. Tables and Graphics

In This Chapter

The quickest way to create a table

Creating tables from scratch

Using table styles

Handling tables, rows, columns, and cells

Table layout and design

Inserting pictures from files

Finding pictures on the Internet

Working with graphics

Using Clip Art

Using Word 2007’s new SmartArt tools

Tables are one of Word’s most powerful and useful tools. They’re extremely flexible and easy to create and manipulate, both directly and by using the Ribbon. Thanks to a gaggle of galleries, it’s now easier than ever to create professional-looking tables quickly and with minimal effort. Live Preview comes to life when it comes to working with tables.

This chapter won’t help you decide whether to include pictures. It won’t tell you what pictures to use. This chapter will, however, show you where to find pictures if you don’t have any, how to insert pictures and other graphics, how to work with pictures once they’re in your document, and how to negotiate the precarious relationship between pictures and text.

So, pull up a chair!

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