Select cells, rows, and columns

When you select part or all of the structure of a table, its cells are outlined. A solid reversed highlight indicates that you have selected the contents of a table.

Select a single cell

$image\BM1.gif$ Place your cursor within the cell.

Select multiple cells

$image\BM1.gif$ Click the left mouse button and then drag until the cells you want to select are outlined.

$image\BM1.gif$ With the cursor in a cell, press and hold Shift and then press the arrow keys.

Select all the cells in a row or column

$image\BM1.gif$ Click the left mouse button and then drag until the cells you want to select are outlined.

$image\BM1.gif$ Right-click and choose Select > All Cells in Rows or Select > All Cells in Columns.

Select multiple rows or columns

$image\BM1.gif$ Click the left mouse button and then drag until the cells you want to select are outlined.

$image\BM1.gif$ Select a partial row or column. Right-click and choose Select > All Cells in Rows or Select > All Cells in Columns (only the opposite choice will be active) to select all the rows or columns that intersect your initial selection.

Select an entire table

$image\BM1.gif$ Click the left mouse button and then drag until the table is outlined.

$image\BM1.gif$ Right-click in the table and choose Select > All Cells in Table.

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Notes

You can also choose these same commands from the Table menu to select some or all of the cells of a table.
To adjust properties for a single cell, or an entire table, you do not need to select anything; simply right-click and then choose Properties > Table. Once the Table Properties dialog appears, the current cell will be highlighted; this is helpful when you work with nested tables.
CuteSITE Builder lets you select within tables in two different ways:

When you select cells, each selected cell appears with a box outline inside it. You can use cell selection to change attributes that relate to the cells themselves, such as their sizes or their background colors, as well as attributes of their contents, such as their formatting or their vertical alignment.
When you select the contents of cells, you see a solid reversed area, just as if you were selecting text outside a table. You can use regular selection just as you would outside a table, to change attributes of the text, such as its size and color, but also its font family, character and paragraph styles, and bullets. As elsewhere in text, images and objects within text are affected by certain settings, such as alignment.

All attributes are independent of each other, and additive. For example, spacing is the result of adding all the separate attributes you have set. Text in a cell can have spacing before and after (between paragraphs only) and horizontal alignment and indents determined by its paragraph style, plus vertical alignment determined by its cell properties, plus cell padding and spacing determined by its table properties.