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Quick Tables in Word- Instructions

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Quick Tables in Word: Video Lesson

            This video lesson, titled “Inserting Quick Tables,” to shows you how to insert Quick Tables in Word. This video is from our complete Word tutorial, titled “Mastering Word Made Easy v.2019 and 365.”

Quick Tables in Word: Overview

            Quick Tables in Word are pre-created tables saved into one of the building block galleries. Quick Tables in Word give you easy access to many of the most commonly used table layouts. For example, you can insert a Quick Table into a document to create a calendar, which you can then edit.

            To insert Quick Tables in Word, click to place the insertion point cursor at the document location where you want to insert a Quick Table. Then click the “Table” button in the “Tables” button group on the “Insert” tab of the Ribbon. Then roll your mouse pointer down to the “Quick Tables” command in the drop-down menu that appears. A listing of the various types of Quick Tables you can insert then appears in a side menu of choices.

Quick Tables in Word- Instructions: A picture of a user inserting a Quick Table in Microsoft Word.

Quick Tables in Word- Instructions: A picture of a user inserting a Quick Table in Microsoft Word.

            Scroll through the choices shown until you find the type of Quick Table to insert. Then click the desired Quick Table choice to insert it into your document. Then replace any of the default content in the Quick Table with your own content to edit it, as needed.

Quick Tables in Word: Instructions

  1. To insert Quick Tables in Word, click to place the insertion point cursor at the document location where you want to insert a Quick Table.
  2. Then click the “Table” button in the “Tables” button group on the “Insert” tab of the Ribbon.
  3. Then roll your mouse pointer down to the “Quick Tables” command in the drop-down menu that appears.
  4. A listing of the various types of Quick Tables you can insert then appears in a side menu of choices.
  5. Scroll through the choices shown until you find the type of Quick Table to insert.
  6. Then click the desired Quick Table choice to insert it into your document.
  7. Then replace any of the default content in the Quick Table with your own content to edit it, as needed.
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