“Represent the periodic table in a 32-column format.” Scerri calls 32 columns a more natural form for the periodic table and attributes the current dominance of 18 columns to convenience only.

Click the "Insert" tab on the ribbon, click "Table" in the Tables group and then select "Convert Text to Table" to bring up the dialog box. Select the number of columns in the Table Size section.

You could have chosen the data type Automatic for each of these as well, and it would have worked. The automatic data type will attempt to automatically recognize the type of data and prepare the ...

Use Word 2010's Numbering feature in tables and make it automatically number multiple table columns vertically. This way, each cell in each column will be placed under the correct number.

Making a pivot table based on a suggestion allows you to skip the process of manually defining rows and columns. This saves time, but only if the suggestion for the pivot table you want pops up.