You can set up table attributes such as number of rows and columns, line styles and colors, text styles, and shadows.

Important:  A table has four distinct formatting areas: header row, header column, inside borders, and outside borders. To set default table attributes, you must apply each attribute to an entire formatting area. For example, to set the default formatting of a header row, you need to change the formatting of all the cells in the header row, not just one header cell.
To set default table attributes:
  1. In the slide navigator, create a new slide.

  2. If you’re setting up default attributes for a particular master slide (rather than all the masters in the current theme), click Masters in the toolbar and choose the master slide.

  3. Place a table on the slide. Adding a Table tells you how.

  4. Select the table and set its attributes.

    See Resizing a Table if you want to change the table’s dimensions.

    See the topics below About Customizing Master Slide Layouts to learn about adding and removing columns and rows and creating header rows and columns, and to learn about splitting and merging table cells, resizing them, and formatting their borders.

    See Filling Table Cells with Color or Images if you want to add graphics to the table.

    See About Customizing the Look and Layout of Tables and Formatting Table Cell Values for Display to learn about options for formatting the display of cell values.

  5. Do one of the following:

    • To make the table the default for only the current master slide, choose Format > Advanced > “Define Table for Current Master.”

    • To make the table the default for all master slides in the current theme, choose Format > Advanced > “Define Table for All Masters.”

  6. If you don’t want the table on the slide, delete the table.

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