How to make a TIMELINE in Word | MS WORD Tutorials

Learn how to make a simple timeline in Word using a table to keep everything nicely aligned. Fully customise your timeline by using different colours, fonts, border lines, additional graphics and adding more to your timeline by increasing the number of cells you create in your table.
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Within all my tutorials I aim to help you develop your skills working within Word, Excel and Powerpoint as well as further your knowledge about the tools which are available within the Microsoft Office Software.
Throughout this channel I aim to cover simple subjects such as page numbers, margins, headers and footers, image, pictures and fonts as well as more advanced themes such as tables, mail merge, table of contents and electronic signatures.
Sharing tips and tricks which I discover along my journey is also an important aspect of this channel. I love the idea of giving people the solution to a problem they’ve been struggling with in Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint.
The channel began all because of a problem I had when I had to insert images into a Word Document. I couldn’t find a way to drag and drop multiple images into a table without them expanding across the page, being cropped or interfering with the rest of the text. It wasn’t until I finally sat down one day, determined to find the solution and developed a way to solve the problem. Having found the problem quite difficult to solve without knowing how to do it I decided to make a You Tube video about it. Never once believing that many people would watch it, let alone be so grateful.
After discovering how helpful a simple tutorial could be I decided to make further videos with the aim of once again helping as many people as possible.
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[@danyellena]

This has EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. Thank you for providing these clear and concise instructions!

[@LisaDoe]

You're very welcome!

[@anthonybaier8840]

This was an amazing Timeline Tutorial! I literally could listen to your lovely accent for years and still be delighted! Thanks Lisa!!!

[@laurenb5351]

Thanks for this! Very helpful and clear.

[@FanaticQuattro]

This is exactly the look I want for my timeline, however, there must be an easier way? Great video BTW.

[@margaretthorpe4828]

Wow! It is sooo difficult to explain functions on computers to the non tech savvy. You are an excellent teacher, Lisa!! 👏👏💪 Your examples are step by step, well paced, well demonstrated. You presume nothing. When necessary you back step to review. I'm super impressed.

[@LisaDoe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@queendidine]

Great and thank you for taking the time to make such a great tutorial.

[@LisaDoe]

Thanks for watching!

[@martinezruizcanalesaguilar5986]

Couldn't add the text box but overall it looked amazing! Thank you so much :)!!

[@sarahwolters3342]

This video was so well done! Thank you for sharing :)

[@stephanieclayton3804]

Great Instruction and Presentation. Clear, concise but thorough, and easily understood. I don't usually subscribe to tutorials for this type of thing but I will subscribe to this one.

[@LisaDoe]

Thank you for your lovely, positive, comment : )

[@abdurrehman3337]

Very well explained, thanks for the video :)

[@violetnyando6674]

Thank you Lisa very very helpful

[@JustFun-iz9rf]

thank you so much great help

[@scottmarshall319]

Thank you for the clear and easy to follow instructions! It was like listening to my Aussie niece, which made it even more fun. 😊

[@LisaDoe]

Love it :)

[@janebarker5808]

Hi. Thank you for your excellent tutorials. I have learnt (and used) so much. I have recently taken over ‘updating’ our Charity Facebook page and website so wondered if there was a tutorial that covers putting ‘interesting looking’ posts on both? Many thanks Jane (aged 70 but everyday is a school day) 😉

[@LisaDoe]

Love that you're still learning as I am too. Glad it was helpful.

[@twrites2291]

Well developed

[@chulaguptha]

thank you very much for the nice and innovative presentation.

[@LisaDoe]

Glad you liked it!

[@user-jm5gg5up9b]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Excellent presentation!

[@LisaDoe]

You're very welcome!

[@witcherye]

thank you ♥️

[@maxthabede]

Thank you

[@brethrencastaneda1811]

Thank you.

[@titisokan2000]

Thanks Lisa for your detailed tutorial video which was very helpful.

[@LisaDoe]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your comment.

[@MFootball-u7s]

Thank you amazing teaching

[@LisaDoe]

So nice of you, thank you :)

[@elteacheroo]

Thanks for sharing

[@LisaDoe]

My pleasure

[@mohitkumar.24x7]

Thank 💖

[@chandrubiradar9197]

thanks
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[@samundar1987]

Thank you. This is very helpful.

[@LisaDoe]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mc2e100]

Good Job. Thank you.

[@LisaDoe]

Thank you too!

[@andreagilbert8711]

Thanks!

[@LisaDoe]

Thank you so much :)

[@jchrisbotz6035]

Bill G calls you when he's stuck,, ?right! 😉 your lessons are an amazing resource Lisa, thanks again!

[@LisaDoe]

Thank you so much for your comment. Very much appreciated and I'm glad they've helped :)

[@lele566]

this is really helpful actually thank you ur a god send

[@LisaDoe]

Glad it helped

[@buduralanazi6405]

Hi, thanks for you explanation. I can't type inside the cells, how can I solve the problems

[@tisaloewen7051]

genius- so much better than smart graphics seriously

[@LisaDoe]

Brilliant - glad it helped : )

[@RumaLuma]

Sri 🇱🇰 lanka fan your

[@pinsandshins451]

After you have created the time line can you move it around on the page or make it smaller?

[@LisaDoe]

Yes, but you would have to use WORD ART for the text, select everything and GROUP it all together and then SAVE AS A PICTURE. You would then need to re-import or re-insert it as a picture (jpeg).

[@pinsandshins451]

@@LisaDoe thank you

[@staynavytom2963]

Do you have notes for your excellent tutorials?

[@9_of_9]

When you type text, is the box is supposed remain original square size, or does it run on until you press enter?

[@LisaDoe]

It should remain the same size, but you can right click on the cell and change the cell format.

[@ignisGladius]

How do you Group your fonts? Thanks!

[@katerina2934]

It was soo heplful! Thank you so much!
But i didint understand the last step when we delete all the background columns and rows and keep just the timeline. I mean I have selected the table and then clicked to view gridlines but i didnt have the same result

[@LisaDoe]

What result did you get?

[@hendrinigrini2185]

Lisa which version of ms word are you using

[@kevgh3869]

I have problems with it stretching down into another page.

[@aaishazeeshan3844]

If u want a time line just go in insert press smart art and click process whichever design u want u can chose😊

[@nithyamurugaiya3630]

Hiii , why my table is moving when i type inside it???

[@Nominaze]

When I press lay out, I don’t see height nor width. Can you please help?

[@LisaDoe]

Have you selected the table or more than one cell?

[@Nominaze]

@@LisaDoe I selected the table.

[@mrbootytaker5000]

@@Nominaze bros been waiting for 7 months 😭

[@Nominaze]

@@mrbootytaker5000 Lmao 😭

[@mahirafarhin6681]

Don't click the regular layout, when you select the table another layout will appear and that's the one you have to click on.

[@ShortRedditGems]

I really thought I was the only one. Like I was buggin'.

[@DeepakRangareOfficial]

9:10

[@hope4lifewalker739]

could this be a little more complex and time consuming? Geesh...why not just download a new table with this timeline prewritten? Noone has figured out how to make downloadable addons?

[@minadadehiwala]

I use time.graphics for this because its so much easier to use .