Unfortunately, there is no really good substitute. If you have access to the
numeric keypad and NumLock is off, you can use Alt+Num 5. You can still use
Alt+double-click if you can stand to have the Research pane open as well
(and have it tamed so that it doesn't look for a connection if one is not
present). And you may still find this easier than using Table | Select |
Table (but a "keyboard shortcut" for that would be Alt+A, C, T (easy enough
to remember!).

There *is* a decent workaround for selecting a column, however. Alt+click no
longer works at all, but you can use Shift+right-click.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"PassportBoyInSF" wrote in
message ...
It used to be==
hold the alt key
double left click the mouse
and then the entire table would be selected in Word 97, 2000.

Thanks!