Often text documents contain information tables. Numbers, text, symbols, images can be used to fill such tables, and sometimes physical or mathematical formulas need to be placed in cells. This is easy to do using the Microsoft Office Word word processor.
Necessary
Word processor Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010
Instructions
Step 1
Load a text document with a table in Microsoft Word and position the insertion cursor in the desired cell. Then go to the "Insert" tab of the program menu and find the "Formula" button - it is placed in the far right group of commands with the name "Symbols". Click with the mouse not on the label on the button, but on the small triangle to the right of it - this will open a drop-down list with a dozen sample formulas. Select the one that is closest to the one you want to insert into the table.
Step 2
Immediately after selecting a formula, the spreadsheet processor will turn on the editing mode by placing the necessary tools for this on a new menu tab - "Working with formulas: Constructor". With their help, bring the selected formula in exact accordance with what needs to be placed in the table. Then click the mouse outside the formula box to turn off the editing mode.
Step 3
Using a similar template is easier than creating a formula "from scratch", but if you decide to do everything yourself, in the first step, do not open the drop-down list, but click on the inscription on the "Formula" button. In this case, the word processor will also turn on edit mode and add a tab with tools to the menu, but the formula frame will be empty.
Step 4
If the formula is created somewhere outside the table, you can drag and drop it into the desired cell. For this, a rectangle with three vertical dots at the upper left corner of the formula frame is intended - it appears in the editing mode.
Step 5
If the formula will not fit into the cell designated for it, expand the boundaries of this cell by expanding them with the left mouse button to the desired width. If you need to move the border of an entire column, select all its cells before moving. To place a formula, you can merge several adjacent cells - select them, right-click and select “Merge Cells” from the context menu.
