Inserting Your Text Into a Table And Adding Table Formatting

Select all of your text (Ctrl + A) and on the Insert tab on the ribbon select Table:

Your text should now appear in a table. The next step is to format the table by merging cells and applying color to help the text to stand out.

Merge Cells :

There are too many lines in the table. You are going to merge two cell rows to remove some of the lines. You sill merge rows 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6 and so on. Continue merging the two adjacent rows until your have completed the entire table. To merge rows select the rows you want to merge and on the Table Tools Layout Tab select Merge Cells. Traits should appear in one row and descriptors in one row. There should be 21 rows in your table.

Highlight Words:

Now you will use the highlighter to highlight important words in the description. To use the highlight tool drag over the text you want to highlight then click the highlight text button on the home tab. You will use the default color of yellow. I will demonstrate on the first descriptor, selecting the important words. You will need to find and highlight the additional nine descriptors. You will be looking for words that best describes what the trait stands for.