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Sometimes you'll create a table design that you want to use over and over again. For example here, I have a small calendar designed as a table and I want to use it regularly throughout the year but I don't want to have to format each table individually so I'm going to select my calendar here and from the Insert Tab, select Quick Parts and Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery. Here I'm going to call it My Calendar. I'm going to select to save it to a special gallery of tables so I'll click the Drop-Down List and select Tables. The category I'm going to leave as Built-In. I can add a description for it if I wish. I'm going to save it in Building Blocks, which is the default document for Building Blocks in Word and just click OK. Now it's saved as a calendar that I can use over and over again. Let's see how we would use this table design. I'm going to create a brand-new file with File and then New, going to make it a blank document and click Create. Now let's assume that I want to add a calendar to this page so I' m going to choose Insert and then Table. And from the bottom of the Tables List, you'll see there's an option called Quick Tables. These are tables that are built into Microsoft Word and they're also any tables that you've selected and saved to the Built-In category. There are some calendars here but I'm going to scroll down and look for my particular calendar. And here it is. I'm going to click it to select it and insert it into the document. Now it's inserted into my document. All I need to do is to select the text and make changes to it. For example, to make March's calendar, I'll type March. And then I'd go ahead and remove these dates and replace them with March's dates. You can see that I haven't had to create the basic table and I haven't had to format it with colors or borderlines. The table is available any time I want to add a calendar to my document by simply doing as I would if I were inserting any other table and choose Insert Table and it's available from this Quick Tables List. If it ever disappears from this Quick Tables List, for example if I have so many tables saved that it can no longer appear in the list, I can always find it from the Quick Parts Gallery. I'll select Insert Quick Part and I'll choose Building Blocks Organizer. We know the gallery that it's saved in is the Tables one so I'd click Gallery to sort my galleries into alphabetical order and then if we go down here, it'll be in the Tables Gallery. Here it is here and we just select Insert to insert it. Quick Parts is a really handy feature to use and we've seen it in earlier videos to use it for text but here we're seeing a special case of creating Quick Parts from tables.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Word 2010
Author: Helen Bradley
SKU: 34149
ISBN: 1-936334-42-9
Release Date: 2010-08-05
Duration: 8.5 hrs / 119 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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