Can I make a table with slanting titles at  the top of each column?

I am trying to take the entered value from one cell and
put an * on each side of it.  I am formatting the cell for
a bar code and need the * for start and stop characters.  
For example, cell c2 is a form field and the user would

I'm using Word as part of Office 2002 with SP2, the o/s XP with up-to-date patching.
A document consist entirely of one lable, 8 pages. The table has 3 columns, the rightermost of the three has blocks of text (8 point Aerial).   Some of the text are sentences with bullet points.

Using Word 2003. I want to increase the whote space for appearance reasons before a table
so there is more separation between the text above the table (body text) and the tablet
without having to use a carriage return to force a new line.  I cannot find a "space
before" function as ...

When I press Tab to move from one cell to the other it
works fine... great.  BUT, when I get to the last cell in
the table and press tab, it creates another row/cell.  Is
this normal?  If so, can it be changed?  I want the

when i try to select the text in a form field inside a
table in a protected document using shift+right the whole
text get selected.how can i solve this problem

Is there a way to lock/freeze a given (or All) cell heights in a given table
I have a form laid out in a table
Cells expand when text is entered and parts of the table roll to a second page - not desired
Word 2002 and Windows XP Hom

Is there a command to align figures in a column by the
comma when some of the cells have parentheses to represent
negative numbers?

I'd like to insert one or more footnotes within a table
and have the footnote placed at the bottom of the table.  
Any way to do this?  Currently, I can only get the
footnotes to be placed at the bottom of the page or at the

I was given a document to "fix" which has a table in it.  
The document insists on breaking at a specific cell in a
table.
I looked at the document in Normal View and can see what

I am working on a Mail Merge with a Word (2003) Table as the Data Source. Some of the fields in the table change with every record, but some are the same for the whole merge. Do I need to repeat the data that does not change for every record? Can you have more than one table as a ...

I'm doing a table with double line spacing and I'd like
the text to run along the bottom of the cell, or even the
center of the cell, but no matter what I do it stays at
the top.  I've gone to the Tables and Borders toolbar,

             Is there a way to easily make table cells square?   I'm a teacher and use graphs with different numbers and sizes of cells, but I'd like them to be square.  Each time I create a new one, I have to wrestle with the column and row settings until it looks about right.  ...

I have a table where one row is about 40 pages long, is there any way
of forcing either a row break at some point within this row, or a
table break. Basically want to split the huge row into seperate rows
or seperate tables.

I'm scratching my head trying to find out what method I should use to find
the number of columns in a row of a word table. Thanks