Excel Working with Tables. El Milagro De Carintia. Introduction. This article has been published on the Microsoft site in DutchWith the release of Excel 2. Microsoft has introduced a new concept of working with tables of data. This new functionality is not surprisingly called Tables. In fact, Tables in Excel 2. Excel 2. 00. 3s List feature, with added functionality. Hi Manju, I wish I knew the answer to your question, but I really dont know much about office automation or the capabilities of the Office 2007 document host. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Typing Tutor 6 For Windows 7. This article introduces you into the concepts of working with Tables in Excel. Excel use. Creating Your Table. Creating a table in Excel is easy. Of course you already have some data available somewhere on your sheet. Select the cells that contain the data Figure 1 Select the table area. Next, on the Home tab of the ribbon, find the group called Styles. Click on the button that says Format as Table see figure 2 Figure 2 Format as Table button on the Styles group of the Home tab. Tip By default, drawing backgrounds and stencil backgrounds are a single color. If your monitor is set to 32bit color, you can set these backgrounds to grade. Whobets BLOG Devoted to Thoroughbred Horse Racing, including handicapping, Wall Street, Free Thorobreed Handicapping Selections, Free BIRS Watch data and more. Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 products in a peruser fashion published or assigned using Group Policy Software Installation. Peruser deployments for Office 2007. Of course if you dont want to see your diagram in the hideous colors that Visio gives you to work with, you can copy the diagram and paste into Illustrator where. HR0cDovLzIuYnAuYmxvZ3Nwb3QuY29tL185d0dHRVJ0TkNHSS9TaEgwblBfdVI5SS9BQUFBQUFBQUFuOC9fZkNLTEhLR1hRay9zMTYwMC9PZmZpY2UlMkIxNC0yMDEwLUNhcHR1cmEtUG93ZXJQb2ludC5wbmc=' alt='Visio 2007 For Window 7 32 Bit' title='Visio 2007 For Window 7 32 Bit' />After clicking this button, Excel shows a new user interface element called a gallery, with a number of formatting choices for your table, see figure 3 Figure 3 Table format gallery. Select one of the predetermined formats. After clicking one of the formats, Excel will ask you what range of cells you want to convert to a table see figure 4. If your table contains a heading row, make sure the checkbox is checked. OjKQe.png' alt='Visio 2007 For Window 7 32 Bit' title='Visio 2007 For Window 7 32 Bit' />Click OK to convert the range to a table. Figure 4 Dialog asking what range of cells has to be converted to a table. After youve finished these steps, your table will look like figure 5. Figure 5 Range of cells, after converting to table. Together with fellow Excel MVP Frederic Le Guen I devised a. The tool adds a tab to. Table Tools And a right click menu which differs whether you right click within a. Within a table it shows the columns names so you can quickly goto a. Outside of a table it shows a list of tables in the active workbook. Note that the tool has an improved interface to convert a range. Special functionality of a Table. After defining a table, the area gains special functionalities 1. Integrated autofilter and sort functionality. If your Table has a header row, it will always have filter and sorting dropdowns in place on the header row. See figure 6 Figure 6 sorting and filtering dropdowns. Easy selecting. Selecting an entire column or row is simple move your mouse to the top of the table until the pointer changes to a down pointing arrow figure 7 and click. The data area of that column is selected. Click again to include the header and total rows in the selection. Figure 7 selecting an entire column of data within your table. You can also select the entire data area or the entire table by clicking near the tables top left corner the mousepointer changes to a south east pointing arrow, see figure 8. Figure 8 selecting all data within your table or the whole table is just one or two clicks away. Header row remains visible whilst scrolling. If your table is larger than fits on a screen and you scroll down, Excel 2. See figure 9. Figure 9 Table header names on Excels column header when scrolling. Automatic expansion of table. If you type anything next to a table, Excel assumes you want to expand the table and automatically increases the table size to include your new entry. Of course you can undo this expansion too, or switch off this behavior entirely. Automatic reformatting. When you insert or remove a row or column in your table, Excel will automatically adjust the formatting alternate shading is kept nicely in place. Automatic adjustment of charts and other objects source range. If you add rows to your table, any object that uses your tables data will automatically include the new data. Table Options on the Ribbon. Once you have selected any of the cells within the table, you will see a new tab appear on the ribbon, called Table Tools, Design. Figure 1. 0 shows you what the ribbon will look like after you click this tab. Figure 1. 0 Ribbon after clicking the Table Tools tab. Each group on this tab is discussed in the following paragraphs. Properties group. The properties group see figure 1. Figure 1. 1 properties group on Table Tools tab. Name of the table. The name of a table is used when you refer to cells within the table in a formula. Change the size of the table. Click this control to change the size of your table. Tools group. This group see figure 1. Figure 1. 2 Tools group on Table Tools tab. Summarize with Pivot. Table. It is obvious what this control does. After you have created the pivot table, you dont need to worry about updating the sourcerange of the pivot table anymore. If you add data to your table, Excel automatically expands the source range of the Pivot table to reflect your changes. Of course you still have to refresh the Pivot table to see the results. Remove Duplicates. Another new feature which has been added to Excel 2. After clicking this control, you are presented with a dialog with which you can select the columns that you want to use to determine whether a row in the table is unique. Figure 1. 3 Remove Duplicates dialog. Convert to Range. By pressing this button you demote the table back to a normal range. Beware if you do this when youve based e. Pivot tables source range will not be updated and the pivot table cannot be refreshed anymore. The External Table Data Group. This group shown in figure 1. Excel using a database or webquery or a sharepoint list. Figure 1. 4 External Table Data group on the Table Tools tab of the ribbon. This group has 5 buttons 1. Export Data. This is in fact a combobutton. If you press it youre offered two options,Export Table to Share. Point List and Export Table to Visio Pivot. Diagram. What these are exactly is beyond the scope of this article. Refresh. Use this combobutton to refresh the external data in your table. If you click the arrow beneath the button, youre offered a menu which amongst others also includes Refresh All, with which you can refresh all external data ranges in your file. Data Range Properties. This button can be used to change the properties of the external data you have based your table on. Open in Browser. If your table is a sharepoint list, this button enables you to open a browser window with that list. Unlink. If your table is a sharepoint list, this button disconnects the table from the list. Table Style Options Group. This group houses the controls which determine how table styles are applied to your table see figure 1. Figure 1. 5 Table Style Options group on the Table Tools tab of the ribbon. Header Row. When this box is unchecked, Excel removes the header row from your table. The cells of the header row are cleared, but Excel does remember the header. If you type anything into any cell in that now empty row, Excel will not overwrite that information when you check the box again. Instead, Excel will insert a new row to show the header. Cells below the table are then moved down. Total Row. Check this box if you want a total row below your table. Excel will automatically add a sum function below the last column in your table. Banded Rows. Check this box to get alternating shading for the rows in your table. First Column. If you check this box, the first column of your table will be formatted differently from the other columns. Last Column. Formats the last column of your table differently from the other columns. Banded Columns. Check this box to get alternating shading for the columns in your table. Table Styles Group. The last group on the Table Tools tab enables you to quickly change the style of your table see figure 1. Sorry, page not found Please enable cookies and refresh the page.