The table is out of bounds in Word. How to set borders using the Border Styles gallery

Good afternoon, comrades! I'll tell you a story from my practice. It was precisely this that formed the basis for writing this article.

In the middle of the day, I received a call from a colleague from the accounting department and, as it seemed to me then, the simplest question: “How can I transfer a table from Excel to Word, but so that everything fits on one page and then can be edited?” Then I thought that my colleague was tired, because she had never asked such “simple” questions before.

We have:

• an Excel table that needs to be edited in Word;
• unloading was carried out from 1C using standard means;
• The table does not want to fit onto the sheet as it should.

Answer: “Command “Copy”, go to document, command “Paste”. If it doesn’t help, go to the “Insert” tab, “Table” button, then “Excel Table”, insert your data into the area that appears, if the area is small, stretch it. If you want it to just be pasted, you can select the table in Excel, click on the triangle after the “Copy” button and select “Copy as picture”, go to Word, paste.”

Indeed, in most cases these two methods will help. As always, there is one “But”. If the table is small. I'll demonstrate.

We see that actions with the clipboard are simple and commonplace. But, as was written earlier, we must check what will happen if we insert a complex table, especially one prepared in another program?

For this we need big table in Excel. I won’t post it in full in the article; the file with the example will be in the links.

Now we select it, copy it, go to Word and paste it. The picture will be next.

Even if you reduce the margins, the picture will remain the same - the document will not fit on the page. Our actions:

• select the table inserted into Word;
• go to the “Layout” tab, in the “Cell Size” button block, click “Auto-fit”;
• select the “Auto-select by content” value.

Let's get what we need.

We dealt with his tables. The thing, of course, is good and necessary, but sometimes very naughty. In this article I will try to describe the main points that will allow you to avoid stepping on the rake that you encounter when working with tables.

When working with the width of any column, make sure that any part of the table is not allocated as a block. Otherwise Word editor will think that you are changing only the range allocated in the block and will skew the entire table.

It happens that when inserting information, the right side of the Word table flies beyond the visible limits of the sheet. In this case, you need to reduce the width of the expanded column. This can be done using the column tow marker if it is visible on the ruler. If the marker is not visible, then click right button mouse in this column opens a window Table properties, in which on the tab Column in field Width a certain size of 3-4 cm is indicated. After this, the column will decrease to the specified dimensions and should be more carefully trimmed.

If text data is placed in the rows of a table, then the rows often have different heights, which spoils appearance. To make them the same, you should select the rows down from the table header (otherwise it will also fall under alignment) and select Working with tables – Layout – Align row heights.

When the table Word document is very large and is placed on several sheets, it is advisable to display its title at the beginning of each sheet of the table. This improves the perception of the document and its readability. Everything is simple here. To do this, you can go to the tab on the menu bar Working with Tables – Layout – button Repeat header lines. You can also right-click in the table header row and in the window Table properties on the tab Line check the option Repeat as heading on every page.

When placing numeric information in the rows of a table, you may find that there are more characters in the column headers than in the rows. To avoid making the columns wide because of this, the text in the column headings can be positioned vertically (sideways). To do this, select the cells in which you want to expand the text and use the button - Text direction, which is located on the tab Working with Tables – Layout – region Alignment.

Often there is a need to insert a table (for example, from a Word or Excel document) onto a website page. However, the table is not always displayed correctly. Below are the main problems that arise when inserting tables: frames disappear, the table goes beyond the page. How your table will look and behave depends on the design theme you choose.

Table frame

Some themes have their own table styles that style the tables differently (the styles determine the appearance of elements), so the table frame may not appear on your site page.

The table below shows which themes do and do not display table borders.

Subject	External borders	Horizontal borders	Vertical borders
Coraline	There is	There is	No
Twenty Eleven	No	There is	No
Twenty Twelve	No	There is	No
Sunspot	There is	There is	No
Riddle	No	No	No
Quintus	There is	There is	There is
Pilcrow	There is	There is	There is
Cheer	No	No	No
Bouquet	There is	There is	No
Sundance	No	There is	No

When inserting tables from office Word programs and Excel WordPress removes almost all table formatting, even down to displaying frames.

If the theme supports displaying a table frame, then you can manually add the border attribute in the html code, which is responsible for the thickness of the table frame.

To do this, after inserting the table into the page, you need to go to the Text tab (page code editing mode), then find the tags and insert the style="border: 1px solid #808080;" attribute into it

1px is the width of the frame.
#808080 — color number.

Code for a sign with a frame, you can use it as a blank:

To add or remove columns and rows, use the Table button on the toolbar.

Table width

What to do if the table spreads, covering the side column and going beyond the page?

1. In edit mode in the page attributes, change the base template to a full-width template, without a side column. And it will be more convenient for users to watch, and it will be displayed neatly.

2. If the table still does not fit on the page, then edit the width of the source table (in your document).

3. You can also change the width of the table directly in the page code. The width is determined by the width attribute; the attribute value can be set in percentages, pixels, and also with the auto parameter, it adjusts the width of the table to the width of the topic column.

To do this, after inserting the table into the page, you need to go to the Text tab (page code editing mode), find the tag

and insert the width="your value" attribute into it.

The code should look something like this:

This is what it looks like in the page editor:

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The bias against tables has deep roots. To be honest, a dozen years ago tables could not boast of convenience due to the imperfection of the program as a whole. But a lot of time has passed since then. Microsoft has done a great job fixing its mistakes and doing everything possible for the convenience of users. It’s a pity, of course, that many of those same users don’t know about this and still work in the 2003 edition of the office suite. Doesn’t it remind you of the story about hedgehogs and cacti? :)

I simply humanly recommend that everyone stuck in the past upgrade to at least 2013 Microsoft versions Office, or better yet, straight to the latest, 2016. Believe me, it only seems to you that you are working in an environment that has become a classic; in fact, it has long been overgrown with moss and mold.

Use templates

Office routine is full, including tables. We take one electronic piece of paper, cut out part of it, insert it into new document and correct the details. A good technique, but it seems to me that working with templates is a little easier and faster. By the way, in Word itself, templates are called express tables.

Click on the "Insert" tab, click on "Table" and go to "Quick Tables". Pay attention to the “Save selected fragment to collection” item.

Here you will find several quite useful options and, most importantly, you will be able to save any other table or its fragment, including your own, as a template.

Draw tables

Remember the bear that, as a child, walked over your ears and hands in a rampant gypsy dance? It’s been since then that you’ve disliked singing and brushes, and it’s been since then that you’ve stubbornly ignored the “Draw Table” option in Word. Buck up, grown man! It's time to suppress the furry monster! It's easier than it seems.

Click on the “Insert” tab, click on “Table” and go to “Draw Table”.

And don’t be afraid to make a mistake: there is always an eraser at hand. Sometimes a pencil and eraser greatly simplify the creation of complex tables with small elements.

Insert rows and columns quickly

Starting with Word 2013, adding rows and columns has turned from a mind-numbing torture into an exciting fun. Don’t think about it, the archaic “Insert columns on the left/right” and “Insert rows on the top/bottom” have not gone away, but now you can forget about them.

Hover your cursor over the space between rows or columns outside the table and click on the plus sign that appears.

In the future I would like to see something similar for the delete function.

Use a ruler

Every person has favorite and disgusting numbers that he indiscriminately uses or avoids in his life. Even in the parameters of your tables. I know people like that. :)

If you are used to accurately setting the indent values, width and height of cells through table properties, try an alternative - the ruler.

Hover your cursor over the border of columns or rows, grab it, hold down the Alt key and use the convenience of a centimeter ruler.

The same trick can be done with indent and protrusion markers. Hover your cursor over them and hold down the same Alt key.

Use hotkeys

If I were a developer software, I would call the hotkeys soul buttons. After all, sometimes you just want to hug your laptop just because they exist. When it comes to Word tables, the three combinations I use most often are:

1. Alt + Shift + Up/Down quickly moves the current line one position higher or lower (simply an irreplaceable thing).
2. Ctrl + Shift + A instantly turns capital letters into capital letters, which is very useful for headings.
3. Ctrl+Tab adds a tab in a cell, while normal Tab moves the cursor to the next cell.

Convert text to table

A little bit of magic that you can show off in front of an amazed audience. Instead of creating tables the usual way, try a couple of other, more sophisticated options:

• Cell arrays copied from Excel are pasted into Word as a table with invisible borders.
• Well-structured text can be easily converted into a table using standard Word tools.

Select the text, click on the “Insert” tab, click on “Table” and select “Convert to Table”.

Pay attention to the auxiliary parameters: the quality of the conversion directly depends on them.

Control cell sizes

If you want to get to know a person, give him a table with a tyrant text. A slightly loose interpretation of a well-known opinion, of course, but it hits the mark. Just look at the screenshot, or rather at the first column and the word “philological” - an ugly thorn.

According to my observations, in such cases, people first express themselves indecently, and then resort to a less than optimal solution - reducing the font size. But it is better to place the text in a different way.

Right-click in the cell, select “Table Properties”, switch to the “Cell” tab, go to “Options” and check the “Enter text” box.

Word will strain itself and return the runaway letter to its place, and peace will reign in the world again. By the way, for clarity, the “inscribed” text will be underlined with a blue line.

And sometimes you borrow someone’s table and hum contentedly under your breath: “Only you, the fish of my dreams”! Good job by someone else's hands! You start filling it with your data, and then uncontrollable devilry happens: some columns spread out due to the weight loss of others. The head becomes sober, and reality ceases to please. What should I do?

Jokes aside, it happens that they send you a table of a strict format, with which you cannot make mistakes. At the very least, don’t be lazy to send it back with the same dimensions. This way the recipient will see what he expects to see. To do this, disable auto-sizing based on content.

Right-click in any cell, select “Table Properties”, go to “Options” and uncheck the “Auto-size based on content” box.

The same option will save your table from collapse if you need to fill some cells with images: they will fit as a thumbnail instead of full-size.

Anything to add? Write in the comments.

Hello, friends! In today’s “Crib Sheet,” as promised, we begin formatting tables in Word 2016. And we’ll start with questions about their boundaries. Anyone who has already read knows that when creating a table using any of the five methods described there, frames are added by default. It's clear... Otherwise, what kind of table will it be? Another question is that these external and internal dividing lines do not always suit us. Now we will look at how to change the borders of tables in Word at your discretion. We will learn how to make the frames and internal lines of tables bold, choosing the desired line thickness, colored, and invisible.

For the convenience of my visitors, I have divided this article into small subsections that answer one specific question on designing borders/frames of Word tables. The result is a kind of FAQ that will be easier for you, friends, to navigate.

How to make table borders in Word using the “Table Styles” collection

Click on the table with the left mouse button, and the “Working with tables” panel opens. We go to its “Design” tab. On the left in the “Table Style Options” window, for ease of perception of tabular data, we can set the necessary selection of rows or rows, their alternation, color and fill intensity. You can highlight with color or lines the row/column of headings or summaries (see Fig. 1).

After this, open the next window “Table Styles”. Here Word provides us with a large number of templates with different combinations of fill and frames (see Fig. 2).

And if you also want to modify the selected template somehow, then click on the line “Change table style”. This line is hidden at the very bottom of all table templates. When you click on it, a window opens in which you can change the thickness and color of the lines, remove/add fill to individual cells (see Fig. 3).

You, friends, also have the opportunity to see how all these operations are carried out with your own eyes. Video at your service. 🙂

How to set borders using the Border Styles gallery

As in the first case, open the “Working with Tables” panel and the “Designer” tab. Select the table. The easiest way to do this is by clicking on the small cross located at the top left, which is called the “table movement marker”. Go to the “Framing”, “Border Styles” section. By default Word offers to choose a frame from one of 12 options, however, in this case, change their color and thickness at your discretion. In the “Borders” drop-down window, you can specify the location of lines that require changes (see Fig. 4).

Those interested can watch a short video explaining all the nuances.

How to customize/highlight table frames at your discretion without using ready-made styles

Select the table by clicking on the “table movement marker”, that is, the cross at the top and left, then in the “Working with Tables” panel, “Designer” tab, go to the “Framing” section. In the window that opens, select the type of outline, thickness and color of the lines, and in the “Borders” window set their location (external, internal, etc.) (see Fig. 5).

How to highlight the borders of only one or more cells

First way. To change the borders partially (select some cells), you can perform all the steps in steps 2 or 3 except selecting the entire table. And the cursor must be placed in the cell whose borders are subject to special framing.

Second way. You can act through the “Coloring borders by pattern” button from the menu in the “Border styles” table. First, you need to select the appropriate contour, width and color of the lines. In the video below I clearly demonstrate how to create table frames at your own discretion and how to select one or more cells.

How to make table borders invisible/remove in Word

In order to remove table borders in WORD you need to:

How to remove the top/bottom borders of a table or borders of individual cells in Word

It is easier and faster to remove individual sections of table borders using an eraser brush. To do this you should:

• open the “Working with Tables” panel;
• select the “Design” tab;
• click on the line “no border” in the “Line type” drop-down window; the cursor will take the form of a brush;
• erase with a brush any areas of the borders that need to be removed.

In the video below I demonstrate the entire chain of simple actions to delete all table boundaries or individual sections of them.

So, friends, today we figured out how to do different kinds borders in Word tables, as well as how to remove them. I hope this article was helpful to you. The series of articles about tables in Word does not end here. Stay tuned for new publications. All the best.

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