How to Create Table in Office without using mouse and menus
ADVERTISEMENTSThis is one of the simplest tricks in Office and its called Easter Eggs. Most of you must be knowing about Easter Eggs and creating a table in Word and Outlook without using mouse and menus is an Easter Egg in Office. So here is the process of creating table easily in Word and Outlook.
Step1: First type +____+______+______+ and press enter
Step2: When you press enter, you can see a new table created with a row.
Step3: To create more row, press TAB.
In this ‘ + ‘ represents the column borders and ‘ _ ‘ or ‘ - ‘ represents the length of the each column. This trick can be used in MS Word and Outlook.
What are Easter Eggs?
Easter eggs are messages, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Mar 20th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Wow, that’s a super handy easter egg for keyboard ninjas like me! Thanks!
Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Very nice tip. Havent knew this before.
Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Thats interesting man…. Great easter egss trick.. Thanks.
Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
@Thilak, Veerasundar and Manas,
Glad that you liked it.
Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I also got this in mail today from one of my frind in Infosys
… a little exploration made me aware that it works with
+—-+—-+—+ and +====+====+=====+ also .. i.e minus and equals
I wonder there are many more hidden there
Mar 20th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I dont think they are easter eggs. If you are a big fan of simple txt files, you use this method to create tables in text files. I think Word converts that format to word format.
Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
nice tips
i think u r guru of Microsoft office applicationss
Jul 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
This is cool. Thanks for sharing. =)
Aug 10th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Great tip but this isn’t an easter egg.
‘A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, or video game.’
This is purely a keyboard shortcut to help you create tables. If you typed this command and a fun little game popped up (or a funny message), then it would be an easter egg.
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