Appendix E Generating Documents Using Microsoft Word
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Figure E-2. Marking Data for Table Formatting
1. From the pull-down menu, select Table»Convert Text to Table.
When the Convert Text to Table dialog appears, select AutoFormat
and select Grid 5 under that. Then leave the settings intact and click
OK for the AutoFormat, and click OK for the Text to Table dialog.
You can choose any design under the AutoFormat.
2. Delete any extraneous paragraph symbols that may have appeared
below the table during the conversion process. This is necessary due to
the way Microsoft Word converts tables.
3. Complete steps1 and 2 for each table you have in the document. If you
are going to choose the same format for all the tables, then follow step
a, and select Repeat Text to Table under the Edit pull-down menu.
This will repeat the macro for the table conversion.
4. Save your document.
Creating a Table of Contents
The DocumentIt template is unable to generate a table of contents (TOC);
however, the template does create sections within the document so that it is
easy to have Microsoft Word generate the TOC.
1. Go to the Table of Contents page in the document and place the cursor
on that page.
2. From the pull-down menu, select Insert»Index and Tables. When the
dialog appears, click List Table of Contents.
Do not include last
paragraph symbol
Table Data
of table data