Indenting: Pressing Ctrl+Tab within a cell will indent your text (pressing the Tab key alone advances the cursor to the next cell rather than indenting).ģ. Line breaks: Pressing Shift+Enter within a cell will force a line break (pressing the Enter key alone inserts a paragraph break).Ģ. Presented below is a summary of some of the more useful Word Table Tools:ġ. Are there any special tricks for typing data into Word tables?Ī.Text does behave somewhat differently when typed into tables, and Word provides some additional tools specifically designed for typing in tables. I've taken on a new project that requires me to type text and data into tables in Word, but I'm struggling.