Tables and TextEdit? How do I delete rows or an entire table?

Hmm... unless I'm missing something, you must not work with tables very often! 🙂 How does one delete a specific row?

The arrows delete from the bottom up, giving the writer no control over which row gets removed.

As to your blunt remark: "I have no idea what else you'd want"

How about:

1) The ability to delete a selected row or column. 🙂

2) A delete row command under Edit!

3) A tables command under Format. (Not buried under a sub-menu and then a palette.)

I could go on, but that's just for starters.

And that would help me, how? 🙂

There is no delete rows option there! Format--Text--Table

Perhaps you are thinking of some other word processor?!

This is truly bizarre that TE has a Tables option but apparently no way of deleting (or inserting) a row or column.

It has to be there somewhere!

I'll let them know, although it's an obvious omission!

I'm a veteran Excel, Word user, give workshops on them, use them in courses, my own research, etc. and know well that TextEdit is not either (although TE has grown in functionality).

Don't need a spreadsheet for this. I often open up TE because it launches so quickly and can be a good place holder for certain text or for knocking off quick notes or as a place to save internet, news group, or forum threads.

I was simply surprised when some text from an Internet page I wanted to save ended up as a text with hidden table properties-- and that there seemed to be no way to delete a row!

I was hoping-- and still am hoping--that someone knows a command or a setting to do this.

It's just such a silly thing... TE has gobs of features for tables, but lacks such a basic one!