Learn Top-Tier Style Legal: Determining The Width of Your Columns When Doing Tables

Determining The Width of Your Columns When Doing Tables When doing financial tables in a legal environment, they come in all shapes and sizes. Some portrait some are in landscape. Some have top headings while some have top and side headings. The focus of this short write-up is how to know the exact width of your columns that contain your numbers when doing financial tables. 1. As you may already know. we use lines applied to "Paragraph" under Borders and Shading when we underscore the sub totals and totals as well as the Headings. The underscore applied to Paragraph will leave some space on the left and right of the cell. If you have two columns of numbers side by side then that space becomes essential in order to delineate between the two consecutive columns in terms of the underscore. If you use lines applied to "cell" then the line goes from end to end of the cell and although you have separate columns, the lines will take on the appearance of 1 long unbroken line. 2. So, what does this have to do with column width? When we underscore the numbers in a financial table let us say for a sub total, if the column width is correct then it should look like the below example if we used lines applied to Paragraph. Sub Total: ________675,987.00 3. The above example shows the line before the number but no extension of the line after the number. This means your column is perfectly sized. 4. If you see this look below: Sub Total: ________675,987.00_____ Then you instantly know that your column width is too large because there should be no excess line after the number . 5. If you have excess line simply go up to your ruler and tug the column over toward the left and your excess line will disappear from the right side. When you see the table looking like example 2, you now will automatically know the problem and the remedy. Top-Tier Style Training www.advanceto.com MS Word Related Books awarenessexplosion.com http://lowcostempire.weebly.com/ms-word-business.html