change vertical alignment
The alignment buttons on the Table Tools Layout tab offer nine options, specifying both vertical and horizontal alignment. (If you right-click a selected table to open the shortcut menu, its Cell Alignment submenu will have the same nine options.) If you want to change the vertical alignment for an entire table but keep the existing horizontal alignments for various columns, use the options offered on the Cell tab of the Table Properties dialog box.
In addition to adjusting cell margins, you can change the vertical alignment of text relative to a cell’s top and bottom borders.
1. Select the document’s last table, and reopen the Table Properties dialog box.
2. Click the Row tab, and change the row height to 0.3 inch.
3. Click the Cell tab.
4 .Under Vertical alignment, choose Top. Click OK, and then deselect the table. The cells’ contents vertically align themselves at the top of each cell.
Figure 14-6 Table after changing cell margins and vertical alignment
5. Save the file as [your initials] l4-8 in a new folder for Lesson 14. Do not print the document, but leave it open for the next exercise.