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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:

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 a table cell 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 the cell.

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

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