Excel provides a variety of built-in table styles with various formatting options of fonts, background colors, borders, banded rows to manage and improve the look of data. There may be a time where we do not require applied table formatting. Therefore, we need to learn how to remove table formatting.
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Figure 1. Remove Table Formatting
I too am unable to deleter the empty paragraph symbol without cutting the table out of the document and pasting it into a new blank document. I must do this because in my document, this issue forces a new empty blank page that I am unable to remove from the document. I have no text that follows the table, so I have no need for this page. This tutorial shows you how to format a table in Word 2016. I have a variety of demo videos for Office 365 that are catered to beginners trying to learn more. Click the “Layout” tab under “Table Tools”. Click “Delete” in the “Rows & Columns” section and select “Delete Table” to delete the table. You can also use the “Delete Columns” and “Delete Rows” options to delete the entire table as long as the entire table is selected. Click the “Layout” table under “Table Tools”. In the “Table” section of the “Layout” tab, click “View Gridlines”. The gridlines now display on the table. To turn off the gridlines for the table, simply select the table and click “View Gridlines” again. Table: Click on the four-way arrow that appears in the upper left corner of the table View Gridlines - Show or hide the non-printing borders Properties - Open the Table Properties Window, talked about later in this handout. Rows & Columns Delete - Remove cells, rows, columns or the whole table. Selected parts of the table can also be removed from.
Removing Table Formatting
Table formatting is applied to get available benefits of creating catchy view along with additional features like integrated sorting and filtering of the data, dynamic table referencing required in data handling. However, in some cases, we may need to remove table formatting to manipulate the data as per own requirement. There are the following two methods to perform this task;
Clear Table Format
Sometimes, we only need to delete only the formatting style of the table such as background color, shade, border, banded rows but we want to keep the additional features of integrated filtering and sorting and table referencing intact for data manipulation. In this case, we need to perform unformat table by clearing the table formatting in the following steps;
- Place cursor in any cell of the table
- Go to Design tab > In Table Styles section click on the More drop-down arrow
Figure 2. Selecting More Button on the Design tab
- At the end of the Table Styles window, select the Clear button
Figure 3. Selecting Clear Button
After selecting the Clear button, remove table formatting only but other features remain available with the table having the following view;
Figure 4. Table View After Clearing Table Formatting
Convert to Range
As we are aware that table formatting carries additional features like integrated sorting and filtering, table referencing, etc. along with formatting styles. We may need to keep the formatting styles of colors, shades, banded rows and remove additional features only. We can achieve this by converting the table into a normal range of cells in the following way;
- Select any cell in a formatted table
- Click on Design tab and select Convert to Range in Tools section.
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Figure 5. Converting Table to Range
- Alternately, right-click in the formatted table, go to Table and select Convert to Range option.
Figure 6. Right-Click For Table to Range
- Click Yes button on the dialog box to convert Table into a range of cells.
Figure 7. Confirming Conversion of Table to Range
- Table converts into a normal range of cells, keeping the formatting styles without additional features of table formatting.
Figure 8. View of Normal Range of Cells
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