Creating Tables In MS Word: Making a Lyric Sheet

How to make basic tables in Microsoft Word, specifically using Word for Mac 2011. As an example, this tutorial shows how to create a lyric sheet, useful in recording situations. For more resources relevant to music projects, please visit http://www.projectmanagementformusicians.com.

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using microsoft word
in this demo using microsoft word two
thousand eleven for macintosh which is
that
some
uh... functionality that
uh... not every version of word has if
yours does and you should look up in the
table
menu ford because it allot of the the
stuff is found up here is a lot of the
uh...
features i'll show you our shortcuts for
example we could drop at the table using
this
shortage here if i want to say uh...
three by three table i can just click
over here and it automatically creates
that thing so that's a pretty quickly
to make a very basic cable you can also
go up to the table
menu
select their since a three three three
com ice three rose go like that you get
the same thing right
so you might have to poke around a bit
it varies from version
but that's pretty basic cable ministry
that created and you can just paid
in any of these cells
and
uh... derek it will word ground for a
like that on the table automatically
changes size depending upon what you put
an end
uh... if u
drag
these
borrowers out here
he can resize it
also if you drag here
it's you have the the cursor changes
should
uh...
you can change
the shape of the cells by dragging
because well so their various uh...
ways of changing the shape
of the table
did shortcut for quick formatting
by the way if you click in a table
at the top left corner so icon shows up
but if you pick it it's like the whole
table delhi can apply some of these
premade
uh... these premade formatting things to
the table if you like so i'm on the
tables to adhere and you can scroll
around and you can get different
options
and that you different
things
serviced harper row
is generally for headers in them
sir really harrow how this would work it
goes
it has
when today down here and then you have
some kind of title over here
except the type it better than that
uh...
you can control lines
overhear orders over here but using
how you want to use to look so it's out
of right border
to this right
weaken and left border
to this one
two dash line dash away dash line
because ours mucking around before and i
chose the dashed line defy
selected this
did it
now we can get a
a solid line where i was just clicking
soaking control lions you can control
you can select uh...
layout if you want to control the
shading overboard of the the cells you
can choose this tools would say i wanted
to make his red which is marie orange
which is a very good idea but that's how
you can control the background colors
of your table so lets this kind of some
basic monkeying around how are you
you know
in a real work environment
that's not exactly how i usually wind up
approaching it
um... i'll attend to have nam some tax
that i'm working on i'll decide to make
a table out of it all decide that phone
really working just text or i can uh...
uh...
what to get some additional
functionality out of it
so it's
of for example
let's go to
hasn't song lyrics
now one of the uses the music industry
that i
use tables for
is creating lyric sheets
for use during recording sessions
when they find it for you are finding a
m
a finnish version so you can see
what we are
building towards
party here
for example is
a lyric sheet
the idea is that i print dust before i
do
uh... a recording
of this song
and these are all different takes take
wanted to do it really bad singers or if
you do a lot of takes
and
uh...
they have tried to take a hike and make
a notation about you know with that
pencil right
uh... whether it was good or bad or if
there was one that i want to keep that i
have little
a little he down here tried so
record the whole saga listen back to its
a a this one was killed
this one was bad
anderson was bad and this was bad but
this one was good
of your record military due to death
they say
and this one is bad business school and
that's good and then the engineer ken
cut this one and combine it with this
one
right and then we get a agood track
risers just data use of tables that i
have so i've got a bunch of squiggles
skinny columns over here
in them nice why it calms for
my text
now this is started
the started which is lyrics
victory here because lyrics
filegate able add to that
i can use area
very handy command
called conversion
text
to table
and it makes some assumptions and will
say okay for now
rights announce made a one column people
so columns of radical rosa resulting
each square is called a cell
so i've got that and if i don't have
that
uh... this little to a bar in my version
of word i could go to
table menu and then convert from them
texted table within him will show up
before
now i can't change it back to text if i
wanted to buy
by choosing this would just be regular
tax again but we're going to stick with
this for now
night table layout
wanna add columns
for my different
uh...
play different takes
these are kind of fat columns
leader did these
you make to make this little center
and then if i could hear and i click on
the right button its gonna make columns
out of the same size has all the latest
bid
let's add a header ro
to the top of it saw click i wanna row
above see others the green above
pretty green shows you where the next
thing is going to be sold
on the above
and um...
salsa is this is for lyrics and then
this is going to be and i had to have to
go to the next call
and then the whole do one
deep he's a take numbers for
five six seventy it's good
uh...
then uh... i can format and i can just
go back here format of cricket format
anything else
i want to be blue lighten white
background color
go back to tables
shading
on its way
background-color
and knows that
this is blew it stays blue so if i have
to
uh... if i want something else to be
blue
uh... it will be uh... i can just click
that's if i want this to be blue i think
like that and it will be that same exact
shape but i don't want that
uh... let's put it header above
that top bro
to clarify that um... those heartache
numbers
so table layout
i have a robe of this
i don't want the xl all these uh...
individual cells over here i want this
to be one jam selva lekin i can send her
some taxes
so i'll select the hall of fame
and i'm going
to merge these together seminar creates
one giant cell halt and go back to home
and if i wanna center they can just use
something like that and i can see
tracks
and so that's the basics of working with
tables antigenic and you can
drank
these bars here
to change the way out other
uh...
use any of the text formatting i
constant to format uh... into the the
tax that you've got new cells so maybe i
won't have all these centered for
example if i can just take that
dot com is how you make tables and their
uh... all kinds of uses for the very
very
useful word