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What makes a bad table?

What makes a bad table?

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What makes a bad table?

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- [Instructor] In order for us to create good tables, both visually and accessibly, we need to understand what exactly makes a bad table. Common practices that some of us have been using for years, or even decades, may find not to be the ideal approach for accurately conveying information. Let's take a closer look at what makes a bad table. So I'm beginning this video with one of my documents already open. This is the 02_07 file. And what I wanted to show you here, this is similar to one that we looked at previously where we have a couple of blank cells, okay? Now again, blank cells are allowed. However, we definitely could do better because having some information in there that is descriptive and gets the point across can be much more helpful than reading a completely blank cell, okay? Now, one approach that people take, I'm going to open up the B file now, so what they did in this table, which is one approach, is that…

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