Open Office

Tables

You can click on Insert, Table, or you can click on the Table tool on the standard toolbar at the top of the workspace. Tool looks like a white grid.

Choose the number of columns and rows. You can always add or delete rows or columns.

To change the size, point your mouse to a line, drag and pull.

Right click anywhere in the table, from the menu that appears, click Table. You will then have many options for formatting your table. In the table below, I added a background color to the cells, You can add borders, columns, etc.

The table below had wide borders added.

To remove a row or column in a table --

Click in the row or column, click on Table (from the menu bar), click Delete, click row or column.

You can remove all borders on a table if you want to use in invisibly for document layout. If you print this table, the lines will not be there, but you can line up items in columns with the table. To remove the grids around the table, right click in any cell, choose table, choose borders, choose none.