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Adjusting rows and columns

Adjusting rows and columns

- [Instructor] I have version B of this table document open from the Exercise Files folder, and this is where we left off in the last movie. Now I want to adjust these rows and columns, but if I have the selection tool selected and try and drag over one of these column dividers, it doesn't move that divider. It moves the whole text frame. So let's undo that with a command Z or a control Z. Remember, tables are always inside text frames and therefore you have to use the type tool to do almost anything to a table. So let's go ahead and grab the type tool from the tool panel and then click inside the table. Now, once I'm inside that table, I can drag these dividers around. For example, I'll make that a little narrower or I'll make this one a little wider. Notice that as you drag these column dividers, it changes all the columns to the right. They all move together. Now, if you want to move a column divider without moving the ones to the right, then you can hold down the shift key. Shift…

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