Microsoft Office

Part I
Getting Started with Excel
NOTE
Excel 2003 introduced a rudimentary version of the table feature. In that version, tables were
known as lists. The implementation in Excel 2007 is much better.
Figure 6.1 shows a range of data that has not yet been converted to a table. Notice that this range corresponds
to the description I provide earlier: It’s a range of structured data with column headers. In this
example, each row contains information about a single real estate listing. The range has 10 columns and
125 rows of data (plus a descriptive header row).
FIGURE 6.1
This range of data is a good candidate for a table.
Figure 6.2 shows the range after I converted it to a table by choosing Insert ➪ Tables ➪ Table.
FIGURE 6.2
An Excel table.
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