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Up until now the tables we've been working with have been regular tables with the same number of cells in each column or the same number of cells in each row but it doesn't have to be this way there are a number of reasons that you might want to create irregular tables and one of the biggest reasons is to be able to create something that you can use as a form there's a very compelling reason to use tables and I'll show you real quickly it often I'll get a form where somebody has actually created a line by typing and underlined and when I use this form in word and begin to type my information you'll notice that the line moves over and that anything to the right of this for example a date would also move over and the more I type the more it makes my form look kind of icky so by using tables I can use borders rather than underlines and I can create more professional-looking forms whether I'm going to print them or use them on screen I'll always have a better looking form if I start with the table and I have a theory about this that every form begins with either seven columns or nine columns depending on how much I want to cram into page it doesn't always work that way but it's a pretty good way to start in my table on the very first row I want to put a name and a date second row an email address and a phone and an address in that an area for office use so I'm going to create a table that is seven columns wide and about eight columns long I could insert this table anyway I wish and in order to make it look right from the start far more like a form than like a table I'm going to go to the Layout tab and I'm going to turn gridlines on here and then I'm going to go back to the design tab and I'm going to remove all of the borders so all I see are my gridlines I want my users to put their name and I'm going to have them enter a date over here so they'll put a first name and a space and a last name and a space and a date on the second row I'm going to have them enter their email address and a phone now just so you can see what I'm thinking about here I'm thinking that the email address will take up about that much space and actually I don't need a ton of space between the first and the last name so here's a first name here's a last name we'll give more space to the last name and then here's a place for a date and for a phone number now I'm going to create some space before an address so when.