Entering Values

After Word has created a table, the insertion point is placed in the top left cell.
You can type text in your cells the same as you would normally.
Text will be aligned on the left by default and will be wrapped assuming the AutoFit to Contents option was nto selected.
Pressing Tab move you to the next cell.

SS - table with text aligned

(Ctrl + Tab) - inserts a tab into a cell.

To quickly insert consecutive numbers into a column, select the column and click the Numbering icon on the Formatting toolbar.

You can enter a carriage return into a cell to space your text
SS - eg