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Selecting tables, columns, rows or cells

You can select a table, column, row, cell or selection of cells. After you select a table or part of a table, you can do the following:

ClosedTo select a table

  1. Press SelectSelect icon.

  2. Press outside, but near to, a corner of the table, and then drag to the opposite corner.

    Note 

    Don’t start dragging from inside the table. If you do, you select a table cell instead of the table.

ClosedTo select a column

  1. Press SelectSelect icon.

  2. Press inside the column’s top cell, and then drag to the bottom cell.

ClosedTo select a row

  1. Press SelectSelect icon.

  2. Press inside the row’s leftmost cell, and then drag to the rightmost cell.

ClosedTo select a cell

  1. Press SelectSelect icon.

  2. Press inside the cell.

ClosedTo select multiple cells

  1. Press SelectSelect icon.

  2. Press inside the top and leftmost cell, and then drag to the bottom and rightmost cell.

    Note 

    If you select multiple cells and drag them to a different position on the page, you create a new table consisting of the selected cells and their contents.