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Table Problems with Office 365

Anonymous
2018-08-06T18:19:12+00:00

So I am an educator and have the free version of Office 365 for education. I have been playing around with Word Online trying to figure out if it will work for me and I am having some difficulty with creating tables. With the desktop version, I am able to merge/split cells and evenly distribute columns/rows. Office 365 doesn't seem to be able to do this. Is that because I am using the free version?

Thanks for your help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-06T19:34:32+00:00

    Regardless of purchasing a subscription to Office 365, Word Online does not have any of the Table functions such as Merge or Split. The document's table would have to be altered in the desktop version.

    Since you are an educator, and have the free version, you should be able to load it on your desktop. But again, that does not change the functionality of the online version.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-06T20:15:40+00:00

    Hi ccondon308,

    Yes of course all that functionality will become available with either the full Office 2016 or subscription based Office 365

    DaveM121,

    You are not a Microsoft employee, and neither am I BTW, and you cannot and must not ever represent on this forum that you know certain functionality will be added into a Microsoft product.

    In fact, an actual Microsoft employee can't do that either!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-06T20:07:19+00:00

    The table function you mentioned, merge/split and distribute, are not part of Word Online. Documents created on a Desktop version are compatible with the Online version and vice versa ... but not all the same functionality exists in the Online version as is in the Desktop version. That is what I am saying.

    I do not own a Chromebook and I have never used GoogleDocs so I can't appropriately answer any question concerning their native capabilities relative to Microsoft Office document editing.

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  5. Charles Kenyon 167.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-08-07T15:29:32+00:00

    You will not be able to use all of the Table functions available in the PC version of Office 365 in Word Online. That is true regardless of the platform on which you are using it.

    To get the full functions, you need to run the desktop (laptop) version, not the online version. That means you are still going to need computer access if the Chromebook does not give you this.

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