Select all cells in a table

Selecting all the cells in a table isn't the same thing as selecting the entire table, but changing text attributes can be done in either case.

When you selected the entire table by clicking once on it, there appeared, as Fruhulda noted, a faint blue line around the table. There also appeared 8 sizing handles, little squares at each corner and mid-edge. The colors and fills of the sizing handles are indicators as to the Floating/Inline and Locked/Unlocked status of the table.

Had you for some reason wanted to actually select all the cells in the table, you could have clicked on the first (upper left) and shift-clicked on the last (lower right) cell.

The other distinctions between selecting the table and the cells of the table have to do with pasting data and formulas and with adjusting the Fill attributes, and perhaps other things that aren't coming to mind right now.

Jerry

Hi Fruhulda,

Selecting one cell and then Select All has the identical result to my "click(ed) on the first (upper left) and shift-clicked on the last (lower right) cell" This is selecting all cells, not selecting Table, and you are correct in saying that the handles do not appear in this case. I did not say that there would be handles in this case either.

Curiously, a Fill handle does appear when you select all cells, but it has no apparent function.

Jerry

You should see a faint blue line around the table when you select it this way.

No, Jerry! No handles if you do it as Yvan described!