Distribute Table Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Tables can make your data or other content look organized and make it easy for your audiences to quickly understand how the content in one or more cells relates to the content in other cells. However, even with all this organization built-in within the tabular structure, tables still need aesthetics. A table on your slide looks good when its rows and columns are arranged and sized in a proper manner, and the table cell content is aligned well. Look at Figure 1 where you can see a table showing some very bad arrangement of rows and columns.


Figure 1: Table with bad arrangement of Rows and Columns

One option to solve this issue is distributing the table rows and columns so that they are equally sized and spaced. Follow these guidelines to learn how to distribute rows and columns in a PowerPoint table:

Distribute Table Rows

1. Select the entire table or just the rows that you want to distribute. Access the Table Layout tab of the Ribbon, highlighted in red within Figure 2. Then click the Distribute Rows button, highlighted in blue within Figure 2.
   
   
   Figure 2: Distribute Rows option within the Table Layout tab
   
   
2. This will equally space and size the selected rows, as shown in Figure 3 (compare with Figure 2).
   
   
   Figure 3: Table Rows equally distributed

Distribute Table Columns

1. Select the entire table or just the columns that you want to distribute. Access the Table Layout tab of the Ribbon, highlighted in red within Figure 4. Then click the Distribute Columns button, highlighted in blue within Figure 4.
   
   
   Figure 4: Distribute Columns option within the Table Layout tab
   
   
2. This will equally space and size the selected columns, as shown in Figure 5 (compare with Figure 4).
   
   
   Figure 5: Table Columns equally distributed

See Also: Distribute Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows