How to Convert a List to a Table in Microsoft Excel
See Microsoft Excel: Tips and Tricks for similar articles.Converting a list to a table makes it very easy to format your data and to keep the formatting consistent as you make changes to the data. You can convert a list to a table in three short steps.
This feature works the same in all modern versions of Microsoft Excel: 2010, 2013, and 2016.
- Select a cell within the list you wish to convert to a table.
- On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click the Table command.
- In the Create Table dialog box, verify that Excel has correctly guessed the correct data range, check My table has headers if your table does have headers, and click OK.
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