Working in the editor
Tables: cells, typing and formatting
Insert a table, pick cells, type with a double click and format each cell; turn a table into a chart.
Tables are real tables: in the editor and in the PowerPoint file. You can format single cells or the whole table.
Steps
- Open Insert → Charts and tables and click Table. Its arrow offers sizes such as 3×3 or 5×4.
- Click the table, then click a cell to pick it. Shift-click or drag to pick several.
- Double-click a cell, or press Enter, to type. Tab moves to the next cell; in the last cell it adds a row.
- Use the toolbar on the picked cells: text size, Table text colour, bold and alignment. With no cell picked, it formats the whole table.
- Add row, Add column and Header row change its build; Edit table opens its data.
Good to know
- A table you insert goes onto a new slide of its own; switch this off under Settings → General → New slide for charts and tables.
- Delete empties the picked cells; Escape lets them go.
- A cell shows up to three lines of text.
- Change chart type turns a table into a chart, and back.