Welcome back to part two of tables. We're going to go ahead and focus on the borders and styles for tables in this section. Let's open up the sample document tables and borders so that we can begin working with borders on our table. This document is a sample invoice that was created using tables. And what we're going to do is we're going to go in and make it look more like an actual invoice and not a table with invoice data within it. So we're going to focus on the design contextual tab.

So let's go up to the table tools and click on design. From here we've got various groups that allow us to create people styles and borders within our table. Our first group is table style options. This is where we can tell it if we've got a first column last column band our columns, band our rows, a total row or header row within our table. The next group is table styles. This is where we can choose various styles to add to our table, and we'll focus on that a little bit later.

We also have the option To add shading to ourselves, where we're going to focus right now is in the borders group. And this is where we choose our border styles, our pen color, how thick we want our borders to be, and also the type of border we want. And we can also choose exactly where we want the border added to our document. Now when you look at this document, you'll notice we've got 123 tables within it, so we're going to work on them separately. Let's go to the first table and highlight it. What we want to do with this table is remove all the borders from it.

So let's come over to the borders group, click on the More button for borders, and choose no border. You'll notice when we did that, it removed the solid line around each cell. Let's come down to the second table. And this time, what we want to do is we want to add a different type of border. So let's highlight it. We can choose the More button for border styles and choose exactly what type of style to want it to be at style, a different color, we can click on the drop down next to the type of border and choose what type of border we want on here.

So let's go ahead and choose this border. When you do that, you'll notice I get what looks like a paintbrush. This is where I can tell it now where to put that type of style. And the reason it gave me the paintbrush is because I was choosing a type of style from here. If I click on the drop down next to borders, this is telling me exactly where to put the border, so it doesn't have to give me a paintbrush where I choose where the border goes. Now let's go back to our drop down for the type of border.

Choose no border, and let's get rid of the line in the middle. Excellent. Let's go ahead and hit the Escape key to return our cursor to normal. Now let's just do a quick Print Preview so we can see what this is going to look like. Great we remove the borders around the top part and we Put a special border around the second part where we've got our addresses. Now down here at the total area, we've also got borders that we want to get rid of.

So let's go back to our document, scroll down to the bottom, click no border. And let's get rid of these lines so that we just have it around the total area. Now you'll notice I didn't get to click exactly where I wanted it, so my cursor went back to normal. So I'm going to come up and click no border again. Click on the lines. And let's leave it for the total box.

You'll also notice I did not highlight the row this time, you don't have to highlight the row when you're using the border styles or the border feature here. When you're using the borders more button and choosing exactly where you want the border to be. You do have to highlight the row or column or the cells that you want the borders on. Okay, let's hit the Escape key, get our cursor back to normal. So now let's go back and take a look at our table looks. Now it looks more like an invoice.

Let's go back to our document. Let's click within our table and go back to our assigned tab. So that's how board is work for a table, you go to the borders group, you can choose exactly where you want the borders how you want the borders to be. So again, if we wanted to come over to the total area, click border, choose a type of border. And we could tell it exactly what type of border and where to put it. Click the Escape key or click within the document to return your mouse to normal.

Now let's switch over to the table style sample document. We're going to work with styles for our table. So let's click within our table. Once we do that the contextual tabs design and layout will come up our tables. And let's go back to the Design tab. Now, let's focus on Table style options and table styles.

You'll notice now when I've clicked within the first cell on this table, the table styles options are all checked. All of this information is pertinent when you're choosing a type of style. So the first thing I want to do is put a style on the second table within this document. So I'm going to come down and I'm going to click within the second table, I'm going to come up and choose the type of style. Now I want my header to be denoted in a darker color. So I'm going to choose this one.

When I chose that one, you'll notice the variation in the shading. And you'll also notice that I put a double line before the bottom row. That's because it says that this table has a header row, first column, last column, it's also got a total row. And if I want the rows to be banded and the columns to be banded, that's not the case for this table. There is no total row. So I'm going to uncheck that box.

Once I do that, it removed the double line. I also don't want the column span because the rows are banded. Now what that means is it's going to do every other one light versus dark shading. So if I turn off the column banding, now I'm back to every other row being banded, lighter, dark. And this is how I wanted so that it's easier to read. If I do the column banded as well, it's doing the columns every other one as well.

So if I turned out the row banding, it makes it a little bit easier to see that but I want my rows banded and not the columns so that when I'm looking at this document later, it's a little bit easier to go across the page. So if we come back up to our styles options, you can see that there are a lot of styles to choose from. We could choose a different type as well. So let's choose this type. So it's nice to be able to come in and just click on the style to see what it's going to look like within your document. Let's go back to the first table and click on it.

And let's go ahead and highlight the first column. And let's come up and choose some shading for it. So let's click on the More button for shading. And let's choose a shading style. We'll come over to the third column and choose a shading style as well, we'll make that one a little bit darker. So you have the option to use one of their table styles, or set up your own using shading.

I could also click on the More button for the table styles. And come down to the bottom and create a new table style. I can give it a name, style type, this is going to be a table style. Because remember, we're creating a style. So you need to tell it what type of style it is. And since we're working with tables, that's when it's going to be a snack going to be a paragraph style or Character Style.

It's going to be based on a normal table and it's going to be applied to the whole table. We can tell it what type of font to Use will choose what color font to use. We'll choose our border line. The color for our border line will also choose the shading for our table. And you can see in this box, it's going to show you exactly what the styles going to look like on a table. So we can see that it's not really meshing what I've chosen.

So let's go ahead and make that a little bit lighter when all my information to be centered, and I want the style only in this document, so let's go ahead and say okay, there's my style. So let's go ahead and choose it. And now I've added it to this table. So you can get very specific and how you want your style set up. If you've got a specific type of style you want all your tables to have, go ahead and create a style for it. And that way it's available every time you create a new table as a review of the tables module.

In part one, we covered inserting In various types of tables, working with the cells, rows and columns by doing merges and splits, we also looked at the table properties, and we did a little bit of data manipulation and sorting. In part two, we went over borders and styles for tables. So let's go ahead and take a short quiz on part two tables. And I'll see you in the next module.