Display the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select Objects tool (big white
arrow at the left end). This will allow you to select drawing objects
without touching text.

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Words into Type
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"Gail" wrote in message
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I sent an autoshape to the back behind one row of the table, blue filled
rectangle to make the row stand out, and now can't click on it to delete
it.
I also formatted the autoshape to be behind text so moving the table out
of
the way to reach it doesn't work - the shape moves iwth the table. How do
I
click on the autoshape to delete it?