Inserting a Standard Doc-To-Help Table

You can quickly insert a table into a Word document using the Special Formatting toolbar or ribbon. The table will be pre-formatted with the correct Doc-To-Help styles, and you can specify borders, indentation, and shading of the heading row.

  1. In a Word source document, place your cursor at the point you’d like to insert a table.
  2. In the Special Formatting ribbon, click the Standard DocToHelp Table button. The Standard Doc-To-Help Table dialog opens.
  3. Specify the number of Rows and Columns.
  4. Select the desired check boxes to add a border (Create borders), align the table with the Body Text style (Indent table to align with Body Text), and shade the heading row gray (Fill heading).
  5. To make additional adjustments to your table, select it and right-click. From the menu, choose Table Properties.
  6. Click OK.

Note The Special Formatting toolbar or ribbon will not be displayed in all templates. In those cases, use the regular table functions found in Word.

Note If you want to use the Special Formatting ribbon in your source document, be sure to select the D2H_SMAL.dotx, D2H_SMAL_A4.dotx, D2H_NORM.dotx, or D2H_NORM_A4.dotx template when creating a new document. If your source document is using a different template, and you switch to one of these four templates, the Special Formatting ribbon will not be available.