[Terry Farrell]

If you click on the Table button, it opens a small pictograph of a table for
you to select the number of rows and columns: although it may only show 5
columns wide, you can drag past column 5 and more will appear. (Note that
the default initial display is variable from system to system depending on
the width of the screen for displaying the Ribbons). If you click on Insert
Table in the drop down, it lets you add the number of columns and rows
manually.

Terry

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I just clicked on the toolbar's table icon to create the table and it only
went as far as 5 columns.

Jeff

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Where did you find anything that said 5 columns was the maximum? You can
set 63 columns if you need.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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I'm using Word 2002 in XP.

I need to use a 7 column table. So, using a page setup in landscape, I
created a 5 column table because that was the maximum option Word
offered. I then added 2 columns to get to 7 columns.

Problems:
a) centering the text in the cells is off
b) text that extends beyond the column width disappears to the right.

Is there a way around these problems? Thanks.

Jeff