what is the advantage?

Dear Maria

Thank you for attending Excel 2007 Intermediate Course. I hope you enjoyed the course and believe it was beneficial to you.

This feature used to be called List in previous versions but Microsoft people have really polished this feature and there are some greate improvisations which are listed below:

Auto filter is automatically applied. (Arrows next to all your column headings to filter your data.

If you add data to the right hand of the last column in your table it will automatically be formatted and taken as a part of that table. Similarly if you start adding data on the bottom of the last row in your table it will do the same.

When you perform calculation it you can simply use the name of the column headings instead of typing the cell name. e.g. instead of C4 you can Type [Commissions]. Please note that the name of the column heading is in Square brackets.

All the below options can be accessed from the Table tools > Design contextualized tab which appears on the title bar as a last tab:

Change different table style
Have a Different first and the Last column
Branded Rows and columns so that the data can be easily read
Total Row. This feature by default totals only the last column that has numeric data. But once you have the Total Rows you can click at the bottom of the individual column and choose the relevant function from the drop down list.
Another interesting part of this Table facility is that if you have lots of rows and you start scrolling down you’ll notice that automatically the Columns letters (A,B,C,D, etc….) display the name of the column headings.

I hope this helps!!

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to answer that!!


Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003