I have made 7 pages of tables - class lists for taking attendance at choir
practice at my daughter's school - and now want to add a title to each page -
ie - Ms. Smith's Grade 2 Junior Choir. I have left enough margin above the
tables to have room for a title, just don't know how to now type "outside of
the box" so to speak...

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Adding a title above a table in Microsoft Word is a simple process. Here are the steps you can follow:

1. First, place your cursor at the beginning of the first line of the table where you want to add the title.
2. Click on the "Insert" tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.
3. Click on the "Header" button in the "Header & Footer" section.
4. From the drop-down menu, select "Blank (Three Columns)" or "Blank (Four Columns)" depending on the number of columns in your table.
5. This will open the header section of your document. Type the title you want to add in the left, center, or right column of the header section.
6. Once you have typed the title, click on the "Close Header and Footer" button in the "Close" section of the "Header & Footer" tab.
7. Your title will now appear above the table on each page of your document.

Alternatively, you can also add a title by simply typing it above the table and formatting it as a heading. To do this, select the text you want to format as a heading, click on the "Home" tab in the ribbon, and choose a heading style from the "Styles" section. This will format the text as a heading and give it a larger font size and bold formatting.

This depends on what you mean by a "title" and whether the seven pages are
one continuous table or seven separate tables. Here are several guesses to
accommodate various possible situations:

1. Table starts at the top of the document and you can't figure out how to
get an ordinary text paragraph in front of it: Press Ctrl+Home to get to the
very beginning of the table, then press Enter. Type your title in the new
empty paragraph.

2. The table is continuous, and you want the same title on every page:
Insert a new top row, remove borders if necessary and merge cells, type the
title in the new single cell, and mark the row as a heading.

3. The tables are separate, and you want the same title on every page: Use a
header. See http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/HeaderFooter.htm (You can
use this approach in situation 2 as well.)

4. The tables are separate, and you want a different title on each page:
Type the title above the table. This may well amount to typing it at the
bottom of the previous page, but if you then format it as "Keep with next"
(Format | Paragraph | Line and Page Breaks), it will jump to the page with
the table.

5. The table is continuous, and you want a different title on each page:
You'll need to split the table; use the empty paragraph that will be
inserted between tables to type your title (see 4 for further information).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"slamy623" wrote in message
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I have made 7 pages of tables - class lists for taking attendance at choir
practice at my daughter's school - and now want to add a title to each
page -
ie - Ms. Smith's Grade 2 Junior Choir. I have left enough margin above
the
tables to have room for a title, just don't know how to now type "outside
of
the box" so to speak...