Getting Started
Go to the Insert tab and insert a Table > 2 x 5.
Merge Row 1
Select the first row…
… and Merge Cells
Text
Add Text
Change the page heading to match what you are focusing on if you are doing another year.
For each person, copy & paste the name and description from below (expand the year) into the table as shown below…
- Copy and paste the name into the first empty row.
- Copy and paste the description in the last row.
1980
- Jake Gyllenhaal – actor, “Day After Tomorrow”
- Kim Kardashian – reality star
- Randy Orton – WWE Heavyweight Champion
- Channing Tatum – actor, “21 Jump Street”
- Ryan Gosling – actor, plays Ken in movie “Barbie”
- Macaulay Culkin – actor, “Home Alone“
- Rebel Wilson – actress, in “Pitch Perfect”
- Chris Pine – actor, “Star Trek” movies
- Kristen Bell – actress, “The Good Place”
- Nick Cannon – host of “Masked Singer”
1981
- Natalie Portman – actress, Star Wars prequel trilogy
- Tom Hiddleston – actor, Loki in “Thor” movies
- Pitbull – rapper, “Fireball”, “Don’t Stop the Party”
- Britney Spears – pop singer, “Baby One More Time“
- Jesse Williams – TV actor, “Grey’s Anatomy”
- Beyonce Knowles – singer, “Crazy in Love”
- Chris Evans – actor, plays “Captain America”
- Alexis Bledel – TV actress, “Gilmore Girls”
- Stephen Amell – TV actor, “Arrow”
- Serena Williams – tennis player
1982
- Eddie Redmayne – actor, “Fantastic Beasts” films
- Sebastian Stan – actor, Bucky Barnes in “Captain America”
- Kelly Clarkson – pop singer, “Since You’ve Been Gone”
- Nicki Minaj – rapper, “Super bass” and “Starships”
- Anne Hathaway – actress, “Devil Wears Prada”
- Adam Lambert – singer, on American Idol
- Prince William – heir to the throne of England
- Jared Padalecki – TV actor, “Supernatural“
- Paul Wesley – TV actor, “Vampire Diaries”
- Kate Middleton – married to Prince William
1983
- Aaron Rodgers – NFL quarterback
- Mila Kunis – actress, “That ’70s Show”, “Bad Moms”
- Adam Driver – actor, plays Kylo Ren in “Star Wars”
- Chris Hemsworth – actor, plays Thor in Marvel films
- Emily Blunt – actress, “The Devil Wears Prada”
- Henry Cavill – actor, Superman, “The Witcher”
- Andrew Garfield – actor, played Spiderman in 2012
- Carrie Underwood – won American Idol in 2005
- Macklemore – American rapper, “Thrift Shop”
- Future – rapper, “Turn on the Lights”
1984
- Avril Lavigne – pop singer, “Complicated”
- Sam Hunt – country singer, “Body like a Back Road”
- Scarlett Johansson – actress, plays Black Widow
- Theo James – actor, in “Divergent” movies
- Katy Perry – pop singer, “Roar”, “Firework”
- Mark Zuckerberg – founder of Facebook
- Prince Harry – heir to the British throne
- Bob Morley – TV actor, “The 100”
- LeBron James – basketball player
- Khloe Kardashian – reality TV star
1985
- Michael Phelps – Olympic swimmer, most total medals (28)
- Amanda Seyfried – actress, “Mama Mia”, “Mean Girls”
- Keira Knightley – British actress, “Pride and Prejudice”
- Derek Hough – dancer, “Dancing with the Stars”
- Kaley Cuoco – actress, “The Big Bang Theory”
- Gal Gadot – actress, plays Wonder Woman
- Carly Rae Jepsen – pop singer, “Call Me Maybe”
- Anna Kendrick – actress, “Pitch Perfect”
- Bruno Mars – pop singer, “Uptown Funk”
- Cristiano Ronaldo – soccer player
1986
- Daniel Sharman – actor, in “Fear the Walking Dead”
- Usain Bolt – Jamaican sprinter
- Robert Pattinson – actor, “Twilight”
- Emilia Clarke – actress, “Game of Thrones”
- Drake – rapper, “Hotline Bling”
- Ellie Goulding – British pop singer, “Lights”
- Holland Roden – actress, “Teen Wolf”
- Lady Gaga – pop singer, “Poker Face”
- Lindsay Lohan – actress, “Mean Girls”
- Lea Michele – actress, “Glee”
1987
- Sidney Crosby – hockey player, Pittsburgh Penguins
- Brendon Urie – lead singer of Panic! at the Disco
- Hilary Duff – actress, “Lizzie McGuire”
- Tyler Hoechlin – actor, “Teen Wolf”, “Superman”
- Candice King – actress, “The Vampire Diaries”
- Wiz Kahalifa – rapper, “See You Again” (Furious 7)
- Blake Lively – movie actress, “The Shallows”
- Zac Efron – actor, in “High School Musical”
- Kesha – pop singer, “Tik Tok”, “Timber”
- Lionel Messi – star soccer player
1988
- Claire Holt – actress, “The Originals”
- Stephen Curry – basketball player
- Rihanna – pop singer, “Diamonds”
- Emma Stone – actress, “The Help”
- Tyler Joseph – lead vocalist for Twenty One Pilots
- Rupert Grint – actor, “Harry Potter” movies
- Melissa Benoist – actress, “Supergirl”
- Jessie J – pop singer, “Price Tag”
- Kevin Durant – high-scoring NBA forward
- Adele – British singer, “Hello”
1989
- Taylor Swift – pop singer, “Shake It Off”
- PewDiePie – YouTube star
- Daniel Radcliffe – actor, “Harry Potter” movies
- Mark Fischback – YouTube star, “Markiplier”
- Jason Derulo – pop singer, “Whatcha Say”
- Joe Jonas – singer, “The Jonas Brothers”
- Nina Dobrev – actress, “The Vampire Diaries”
- Phoebe Tonkin – actress, “The Originals”
- Lily Collins – actress, “Mirror Mirror”
- Avicii – Swedish DJ, “Wake Me Up”
Add Rows for Pictures
Hover beside/between the name and description for the 1st names and click on the “+”…
Add a row below the 2nd set of names…
It should look like this…
Last Names on 2nd Line
Click before each last name and [Enter] so they’re on separate lines.
Fonts
Clear Formatting
Select all the text and Clear Formatting (this should get rid of the bold for the names).
Default Font
Select all (CTRL+A) and set the font type to Consolas, size to 18.
Page Heading
Select the page heading text/row and set the font to Postino, size 48.
Names
Select the name rows and set the font Postino, size 20.
Pictures
Click on the link to any year below to open the year info page…
Click on the “Births” link at the top to go down to that section…
Copy the picture for each person, paste them in the empty boxes below the names, and do the following steps:
- Crop > Aspect Ratio > 1:1
- Set the picture Height to 2″
- Quick Style: rounded bevel
- Click off to set the picture.
Crop>Aspect Ratio>1:1
Picture Height = 2″
Picture Style
When all your pictures are in, it should look like this…
Spacing & Alignment
Paragraph Spacing
- Select everything on the page (CTRL+A)
- Go to the page Layout tab… set the Spacing to 6 pt before & after.
Cell Alignment
Select the table and set cell alignment to middle-middle.
Borders
No Border
- Select the table and go to the Table Design tab…
- Set Border to No Border…
Inside Lines
Select the table again …
- Select a dark Pen Color.
- Set the style to the double line (where one is thicker).
- Make sure the Border Painter is selected.
- Click and drag from the left to the right for all the inside lines.
- Click off to see the result.
Shading
- Set the name rows to the darker shade of the same color.
- Set the photo rows to the lightest shade of the same color.
Font Colors
Go back to the Home tab …
- Change the page heading color to the same dark color.
- Set the font color for the names to white.
You’re done, get it checked off.
