Now let's say you want a 3 row table with 3 columns, but you want the middle row to extend across all the columns, and you want that row only to have color.  Go to the last cell in the second row and right click.  Go to Delete, then Cell.  That cell will be gone.  Go to the middle column, right click.  Once again go to Delete, then Cell.  You now only have one cell left on the second row.

	Place your cursor in the first cell and right click.  Choose Table Properties.  When that window comes up, click on the Cell tab.  Where it says Cell spans 1 row, change the columns to 3 or the number of cells you have left in a row.  For this table, there were 3 cells but I deleted 2.  I want my row to extend the distance of those deleted cells.
Now to add color to the middle row:
	Now to put a background color in just this one row, right click in your row.  Go to Table Properties and choose the Row tab.  Click on the color box and choose your color.  The bottom image shows the table with 3 rows, the middle row with no columns and a purple color. While you are looking at that picture on the left, notice the Horizontal and Vertical alignment.  If you want something like your text to the left top of a cell, here is where you would make those adjustments to your table/cell.  Both the Row and Cell have those options.

Ok.....what do you do with a pretty side border to keep everything on the page to the right side in one easy step?  You use a table.  Before I give you the directions, here are a few important tips so you don't get that email saying your page looks funny.

Resolution:  People surf the web at all different resolutions.  Now there is a misconception that everyone is using an 800x600 resolution.  There are many people who are still using the 640x480 resolution, myself included.  My partner is using 1024x768.  If your page is not intended for the general public, you can design it to look good at the resolution that you like best.  But if you want to attract a lot of visitors, or you are designing a client site, you need to be aware of how your page is going to look for any of those resolutions.  If you can't switch resolutions easily, ask a friend who uses a different one.

I've had to tell several people using a side border that it's hard for me to view their page because everything is pushed over on the border.  So I design my side border pages using the 640x480.  Once I have my background up on the page, I insert a new table, right aligned, and usually start it at 80% of the window.  I then adjust that percentage after I see how it looks with the border.  Notice that since this is my overall table to contain all my files, aligned to the right, I've used 1 column and all zeros for border line, spacing and padding.

	Now everything I place inside this table will be confined and not move over the side border.

A table warning here.  If you are going to have a lot of files on one page, do not put everything inside one table.  Make several tables and break up the amount of files within one table.  The reason for this is how a table loads.  Your table has to load first, and if there are too many files this will take a long time.  We did a products table for a merchant, and we broke his tables up into smaller sections such as: Hardware, Software, PCs, LapTops, etc.  The page was loading much faster after this adjustment.