What Does the Box in my Table Mean?
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From: Jerry on 15 Apr 2010 19:00 I hate to be stupid, but there's something I don't really understand about tables in Word 2007. I have a 16-page table in a document. On every page, somewhere toward the middle of the page, there's a little blue box with a four-way arrow in it. If I click the box, it selects the table. Is that all it does, or is there some underlying function to that box? I haven't noticed this box in other multi-page tables before, but maybe I just haven't looked. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 15 Apr 2010 19:10
It's the "table handle." If you drag it, you can move the table (this is a liability because if you move the table or even inadvertently nudge it, it becomes wrapped). It also selects the table. In previous versions, you could double-click it to open the Table Properties dialog; unfortunately, that doesn't work in Word 2007. Note that if you have a table handle on every page, then you don't have a 16-page table: you have 16 pages of tables, probably one per page. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Jerry" <Jerry(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2F1C6D6A-7423-448A-B878-328253C185FC(a)microsoft.com... >I hate to be stupid, but there's something I don't really understand about > tables in Word 2007. > > I have a 16-page table in a document. On every page, somewhere toward the > middle of the page, there's a little blue box with a four-way arrow in it. > If I click the box, it selects the table. Is that all it does, or is there > some underlying function to that box? > > I haven't noticed this box in other multi-page tables before, but maybe I > just haven't looked. > > Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. > |