The challenge: Place two Microsoft Word tables side by side, each in a different format.
The solution: Something that forces you to think. “inside the box.”
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But sometimes, tables need help. And for the problem of placing two miscellaneous tables side by side, we look to the humble TextBox .
You can insert two or more tables side by side in Microsoft Word 2016 – all you have to do is drag and drop them anywhere in the document. But sometimes it's hard to get a table or several independent tables exactly where you want them to go.
So use a text box as a container. Since text boxes can be placed anywhere with ease, and since the content of text boxes can be formatted, and since you can slide a table inside a text box, this makes for a nifty solution .
Open your Word document. From the ribbon, click Insert>Text Box (in text group)> Draw text box , and draw a text box on the document.
Click inside the text box and add a table by clicking Insert> Table (choose the number of rows and columns).
Make the borders of the text box disappear. Click in the text box, then select Drawing Tools> Format> Shape Outline> No Outline .
You can insert another text box next to the first text box as a container for another table.
The simplicity of this method gives you the freedom to create two different types of tables independent of each other and format them differently. To format a table, select each table. Then go to Table Tools> Layout .
That's it!
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