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Merging and splitting cells

Merging and splitting cells - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Merging and splitting cells

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When you first create a table here in Microsoft Word, you choose the number of rows and columns, and then when you look at the columns, each one has the same number of rows, and when you look at the rows, each one has the same number of columns. That's the default, but there is a way to get around that. You can merge cells together, and even split them up in a table to add some customization. We're going to continue working with our Asparagus file, Asparagus7, if you've jumped to this lesson, and need to get caught up. On Page 1, we have our Ingredient List. When we added the new row to type in Ingredient List, maybe that should be centered across the table, so we select it, and we go up to centering here in the Paragraph section, and it's actually centered in the column, not in the table, and there's this line between Column 1 and 2. This is an ideal opportunity for us to actually merge these two cells together into one big one, so let's do that. We'll click anywhere in the first…

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