Microsoft Word will display the Delete Cells dialog box with four options: select ' Delete entire column', and click OK. Here is another, easier way to remember, to delete columns from tables in Word 2007: right-click inside a cell of the column you would like to delete, and choose Delete Cells from the context menu. One way is to use the keyboard shortcut we just explained: select the column, and hit Backspace to delete the column (as well as the content of the column). We will now show you how to actually delete a column from a table, and not just the column's content. Deleting a column from a table in Word 2007 In other words, your table will have one less column if you hit Backspace. But, if you hit Backspace while a column is selected, both the column and its content will be deleted. Hitting the Del key while the content of a column is selected, as described above, will empty the data (text and pictures) contained in the column, but keep the structure of the table intact.

Hit Del (the Delete key) on your keyboard, and Word 2007 will empty the content of the column, but without deleting the column itself: your column is now blank. To delete the content of a column inside a table, but keep the column itself intact (in other words, empty the column's content without deleting the column), move your mouse pointer (cursor) above the column whose content you want to delete, until the shape of your cursor becomes a downward pointing arrow, as shown on the screenshot.Īt that point, click once, and Microsoft Word will select the entire column's content - by default, highlighting the entire content in blue:

Change orientation to portrait / landscapeĭelete the content of a column in Word 2007 tables.

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