--- Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunbar wrote: > > I always have lots of trouble trying to select an > > entier table in Word. I also have trouble trying > to > > select certain rows or columns. I hope we can > avoid > > this. > > I think the means of selecting columns, rows, or an > entire table in > word(97) are fairly easy to use, so I'm wondering if > you are trying > these approaches: > > 1. Under the Table menu there are choices like > Select Row, Select > Column, and Select Table. (I don't usually use > these, but they seem > simple enough).
I didn't notice that one. > 2. To select a row, put the cursor in the left > margin, and when it > changes to the hollow right and up arrow, click to > select a single row > (or click and drag to select multiple adjacent > rows). Sometimes the darn thing just won't change to that arrow. I have more trouble selecting columns than rows though. And more trying to get the funky symbol to appear in the top-left that selects the whole table when you click on it. > (Note: word97 does not support selecting multiple > noncontiguous areas of > text (or table, rows, columns), but that feature > would be useful to me > at times. Aside: You can do the shift key trick to > select a contiguous > range of rows or columns.) I think it would useful to all of us but aren't we better off just aiming to select contiguous areas first and then submitting tricky stuff like this as an RFE? > 3. To select a column, move the cursor down > across the top > (horizontal) line of the column -- when it changes > to a solid black down > arrow, click to select a single column (or click and > drag to select > multiple adjacent columns). Always gives me trouble. > 4. To select an entire table, follow the > instructions to select a > column but start at either the (top) right or left > of the table and then > click and drag across the entire table (after you > get the solid down > arrow). (I have a vague recollection that there is > another way to do > this, like clicking in a particular spot, -- oops > wait -- I think that's > Excel -- if you click in the upper left hand corner > in what I'll call > the "label area" for lack of the right term, you > will select the entire > table. Although this could be nice for AbiWord, I'm > not sure of its > applicability (since a table in a word processor > doesn't normally > display the cell labels) unless maybe we created > another "hot spot" near > (but outside) the upper left corner of a table. I usually end up clicking at say the top left and then dragging all the way to the bottom right but it gives me a feeling that I might not be doing the same thing as clicking on the magic vanishing target thing in the top-left. Andrew Dunbar. > regards, > Randy Kramer ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
