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Creating and using tables

Creating and using tables

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Creating and using tables

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- If you work with lists of data, maybe a personnel, an HR kind of list, like we're seeing here, or an inventory list or a transaction list, something like that. As lists grow or shrink, you can facilitate the management of them with a feature called a Table. On the Home tab, you might see Format as Table in the Styles group. Now the description there doesn't exactly give you a rationale for using this feature. It says, Quickly convert a range of cells to a table with its own style. On the Insert tab you'll see the same feature, with a much better description: Create a table to organize and analyze related data. Tables make it easy to sort, filter and format data within a sheet. Now the term I've used is Entity. We want to treat this data as an entity. Let's convert it to a table. There are two keystroke shortcuts we could use, either Ctrl +T, think of T for Table, Ctrl + L, think of L for List, or on the Insert or Home tab, I'm going to use Insert tab here. Now, before doing this…

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