Table Toolbar

Table toolbar

Insert Table Insert a table by clicking the Table icon, and then clicking the Insert Table icon.

Moving Within a Table

You can move within a table with your mouse and cursor or tab keys. Tab moves forward one cell at a time. Shift-Tab moves backward one cell at a time.

Modifying a Table

To select an entire table, click on its upper left corner.

Table, selected

When you select one or more cells in Buzzword, a context menu button appears Context menu button. Clicking on it displays a menu of commands that you can use on the selected cells. The specific commands that appear depend on the range of cells you select:

Adding Columns or Rows

There are several ways to add columns or rows to the table. When the table is active, there are 4 plus sign buttons on it Add Column button. Clicking on a plus sign button adds a single column or row.

To add more than one column or row at a time, select where you want to insert the new columns or rows, click the context menu button Context menu button, and select Insert Columns or Insert Rows.

Modifying a Column or Row

Clicking on the context menu button Context menu button at the top of the column activates a menu that provides choices for cutting, copying, pasting, deleting, clearing the contents, or inserting a number of columns.

Table, selected with menu

Similar choices appear when a row is highlighted and you select this menu.

Table Row Selected menu

To resize a column, locate the cursor on a column edge, then press and hold down the left mouse button. A resizer indicates the width of the column. As you drag the column edge, the resizer shows the changing column width. Sizing rows works in the same way.

Note: When resizing rows, you are specifying a minimum row height. The height will grow to accommodate the contents of the cells.

Table Column Resize

If you select more than one column or row, and then resize, all the columns or rows in the selection take on the new size.

Applying Color to a Table

You can apply background color to one cell, a range of cells or to an entire table.

First select the cells, then on the Table toolbar, click the Cell color icon to reveal the color palette, then select a color from the palette.

Notice the number that appears in the left column when you hover over a particular color. If you will want to match this color, make a note of the name of the row and the number of the color.

To remove color, select the cells, click the Cell color icon, and select “none” from the palette.

Table Gridlines and Colors

In addition to changing the color of the cells, the Table toolbar has a control for changing the color of the gridlines. If you do not want gridlines to appear, choose “none” from the palette.

Indenting a Table

To change the indent of a table (i.e., move it horizontally), simply click and hold on the leftmost edge of the table and drag it to the position you want.

Using a Table to Add Captions to Images

Buzzword does not yet have a feature for adding captions to images, but you can use a table to get the same effect.

Create a two-row table for your image or images and captions. Insert your images into the cell(s) in the upper row, and use the table cell below each picture for the caption. You may want to turn off the display of table gridlines for this procedure.