It's called the Table Handle. I confess I hadn't realized (or had forgotten)
that it opened the Table Properties dialog. FWIW, you can usually
right-click anywhere in a table and find Table Properties on the shortcut
menu.
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"Jen" wrote in message
...
I used to be able to double click the little crossbox at the top left of a
table (sorry, not sure what it's called - perhaps the table selector?) and
it
would automatically open the properties dialog for that table. However,
now
when I double click, it selects the paragraph of text directly previous to
the table. I'm not sure how I managed to change this...anyone know why
this
is or how I can fix it?