How To Add Text After A Table In Word For Mac

How To Add Text After A Table In Word For Mac
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If your Word 2011 for Mac documents is full of figures, then create a table of figures as an at-a-glance summary of what and where they are. Whether the figures are tables, pictures, graphs, drawings, SmartArt, WordArt, or embedded objects, you can list them all in one place using Word’s Index and Tables dialog in Office 2011 for Mac.

If you received it from another user, one of the 'techniques' often used to avoid a blank page when a Table is at the very end of the document is to reduce the font size to a miniscule amount. That may be the case here -- 1 pt font size can be very difficult to see even when the text or the ¶, itself, is selected.

Before you can create a Table of Figures, you have to put a caption style onto each of the figures you want included in the table. To put a caption on a figure, follow these steps:

Select a figure and then choose Insert→Caption.
Type a caption in the Caption text box and make any other changes.
Click OK when you’re done and repeat the process for other figures in the document.

After you caption all the figures, take the following steps to create the Table of Figures:

In Word, choose Insert→Index and Tables and select the Table of Figures tab.
The Table of Figures tab of the Index and Tables dialog has the following options:
Caption Label: Select which objects in the document to include in the table.
Formats: This is a list of the styles available.
Tab Leader: Select a tab leader style.
Include Label and Number: Select this check box to include the caption’s label and number.
Show Page Numbers: When selected, shows page numbers in the Table of Figures.
Right Align Page Numbers: When selected, page numbers are right aligned; otherwise, they’re left aligned.
Options button: Displays the Table of Figures Options dialog, where you can modify the Style, Table Entry Fields, and Table Identifier.
Select a Label in the Caption Label list.
In the Formats area, select a format that you like.
Select or deselect the check boxes as desired, and when you’re done, click OK.
Preview updates as you select and deselect options. The Table of Figures appears in your document.

Active4 years, 7 months ago

This seems like it should be so basic, but it apparently isn't very intuitive.

The scenario: (1) I've inserted a table into a new blank MS-Word document. (2) I want to add some text outside and above the table.

Problem:
The table is butted right up against the top of the document and I can't move the cursor to a point before the table to insert any new text.

I've found that you can do this by cutting the table to the clipboard, type the new text and paste the table back, but there just has to be a more straightforward way to put the cursor at a point before a table that is at the top of a document.

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3 Answers

The active cursor is even with the bottom left of the table normally. You can just hit Ctrl+Home to get to the very first character of the file, then Enter to move the table down.

If your table is positioned after the section break, or on top of any other page, or anywhere else for that matter, place the cursor in the top left cell of the table, and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter to insert a new line before the table.

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If you've built a table that encompasses many pages and forgot to add a title on top of subsequent pages, which has happened to me quite a few times, I find that inserting a section break at the top left corner of your table (inside the first cell) gives you the space you need to copy and pace the title. Then you simply delete the section break (or not) and go about your life.