Sometimes you want to put data into your Google Slides presentation that's best presented in a table,
kind of like the data you might find in a spreadsheet.
I'm going to show you how tables work and Google slides in this video.
So let's first insert our table by using the insert command and you'll notice there is a table option.
Here I can choose the with.
And height of my table.
Let's go with a three by three.
Once I click that, you can see that the table's been inserted now in order to insert text into the
table.
I simply click in the cell where I want to insert the text and then I can type my text.
So let's do artist, song and rating.
I can adjust the text just like I have just any other text, so I'm going to make this text bold, since
these are column headings.
And then I'm going to type some data, so artist, let's say journey song, don't stop believing.
Rating, let's make that five stars.
If you don't think that song deserves five stars, you can stop the course now.
Let's do the next one.
Artist Aria Speedwagon.
Keep on loving you.
I'll give that four stars.
And now I'm out of room on my table, but if I press tab, it'll give me another row.
Let's just enter one more song.
So artist Neil Diamond Song America will give that four stars.
That one's from 1980, by the way, which just means I'm pretty old.
So now that we have our table, we have a lot of options as far as how the table is actually displayed
to our user.
If I click on the outer border of the table and then drag, I can move the table to any position on
my slide.
I can change the height of the table by moving my mouse to the middle segment of the bottom line of
the table and dragging downward.
I can change the width by going to either the left or right mid-segment points and dragging inward or
outward.
I can increase or decrease the space available for individual table columns by dragging on the column
lines.
Inside individual cells, I can choose a background color simply by having my cursor flashing and then
using the background color tool.
If I select multiple cells.
I can create a background color for multiple cells.
So there we've got a nice orange background for our labels.
And if I wanted to, I could create a background color for our data as well by dragging through all
the cells.
And let's go ahead and choose a light blue.
If I want to change the text color, just select all of the cells and use your text color tool and we'll
go with white text, so there you can see my table actually looks quite different than it did when I
first inserted it onto the slide.
I can also go through and adjust the actual lines between the individual cells.
For example, I have the option to choose a color for them or choose purple and let's choose a thicker
line.
And there you can see the cell where my cursor was now has a thick purple line.
Let's undo that.
I'm going to go to edit and undo and edit and undo again.
Now I'm going to drag through so all my cells are selected and I'm going to choose a nice four pixel
line for all the cells.
I'm going to choose a black border color and I'm going to choose a dashed pattern.
And you can see that's now been applied to all of the cells inside my table.
Tables are great for any type of tabular data you want to put inside your Google Slides presentation.