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:

• Change line type, fill and text properties.

• Resize the table, a column or a row.

• Insert or remove columns, rows or cells.

• Split or merge cells.

• Add or remove a cell shade.

To select a table

1. Press Select .

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

NOTE: Don't start dragging from inside the table. If you do, you select the table's cells instead of the table.

To select a column

1. Press Select .

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

To select a row

1. Press Select .

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

To select a cell

1. Press Select .

2. Press inside, but near to, a corner of the cell, and then drag to the opposite corner.

To select multiple cells

1. Press Select .

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 remove the contents of the selected cells in the original table and create a new table consisting of the selected cells and their contents.