Luckily, for selecting columns you do have a built-in alternative:
Shift+Right-click. As a substitute for Alt+Double-click to select the entire
table, you can, if you have a numeric keypad, press Alt + Num 5 (with
NumLock *off*).

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"Klaus Linke" wrote in message
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Errrm, I was a bit befuddled he
You never have been able to intercept Alt+Click, or other mouse-related
shortcuts, in any version of Word.

"ResearchLookup" has another shortcut besides Alt+Click: Ctrl+Shift+O.
Looks as if the designers wanted another, simpler shortcut for that new
feature,
and probably we're now stuck with it.

The best we can do is assign a new keyboard shortcut to "ColumnSelect".

8-/
Klaus