Select text or cells in tables

Learn how to select text or cells in Adobe FrameMaker tables.

In this topic

Place the insertion point in a table cell
Select the contents of a cell
Select a single cell
Select multiple cells

Place the insertion point in a table cell

Click in the cell, or click to the left of the cell’s text snippet in the Structure View.

Note: You can use the arrow keys to move to the required cell. You can also use the arrow keys to move in and out of a table.

Select the contents of a cell

Click in the cell and press esctha, or double-click the cell’s bubble in the Structure View. You can also triple-click a cell’s contents if it contains just one paragraph.

Select a single cell

Right-click a table to display a context menu for tables. Choose Table> Select > Select Cell.
Control-click the cell.
In structured documents, drag across the cell’s boundary and back, or click the cell element in the Structure View.

Select multiple cells

Right-click a table to display a context menu for tables. You can choose from Table > Select to select the row, column, table, header rows, body rows, or footer rows.
Drag across all the cells, and then Shift-double-click or Shift-click (structured documents) the last cell in the selection.
To select an entire row, press escthr, or drag across the cells in the row, or click the row’s bubble in the Structure View.

Tip: If you click between table-part elements (such as between two rows) in the Structure View, the insertion point appears in the Structure View but not in the document window. A contiguous selection of cells in the document window doesn’t always appear as contiguous bubbles in the Structure View.
To select an entire column, press escthc, or drag from a heading cell into the first body cell.
To select the entire table, press esctht.