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Google Docs Adds Tables to Presentations

By Rick Broida

Updated on: July 22, 2009 / 3:05 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

Good news for presentation-building Google Docs users: Now you can add tables to your slides. Here's how:

Open a presentation and click Table, Insert table.
Select the dimensions for your table.

To learn how to add rows and columns to your tables, edit cells, and more, see the Google Docs help page.

As with other Google Docs features, collaborators can make simultaneous edits to your tables. What's more, tables imported from PowerPoint will appear in your Google Docs presentation, and you'll be able to edit them as well.

Last, but not least, Google added an option to make embedded presentations play automatically. Good stuff! And while we're on the subject of tables, don't miss our recent posts on using pivot tables in Excel, editing pivot tables in Excel, and sorting tables in Google Docs. [via The Official Google Docs Blog]