Tip #4084 - Select an Entire Table
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Select
an Entire Table
Working with a table
in MS Word?
Finding out you need
to select the entire table to oh, let's say, change the font or format
the borders or whatever? The list could go on and on.
What do you do?
Do you select the
first cell, hold the mouse button down and drag, hoping not to miss anything
by releasing the mouse button too early or accidentally highlighting the
lines below the table?
Or, maybe you like
the Shift key technique. You know, where you select the
first cell, hold down the Shift key and then select the last cell. That's
not a bad plan, unless the last cell is pages and pages away and you've
got to scroll to get there.
Looking for a better
selection process?
Well, here are a couple
of quick and easy selection processes for MS Word tables.
To select the entire
table, you could:
- Press the Alt
key while double clicking on the table. (You'll
find that a single click selects the entire column and it takes a double
click to get the whole thing).
- Click on
the move handle of the table (found in the upper left corner).
- Click on
the resize handle of the table (found in the bottom right corner).
Any way you choose,
it beats the old drag and scroll methods!
~ April
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