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2) is there a way to delete a cell without shifting anything -- ie
leave a hole (non-cell) in the table where the cell had been?


As far as I know, you cannot have a "hole" in a table.


But you can, of course, leave the cell empty, creating the illusion of a
"hole" in the table...

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"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote in message
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fred was telling us:
fred nous racontait que :

starting with a simple rectangular table (in which all cells are the
same size), i can delete a cell using the "shift cells left" option,
and the result is a table that's missing a cell at the right end of
the row. (makes sense.)

starting with the same table....

1) is there a way to delete a cell so that the result has the missing
cell at the left end of the row ("shift cells right")?


One way of doing this is to merge the first two cells in the row, then
select the merged cells, finally, drag its left border to the right until
it lines up with the second column delimiter.

2) is there a way to delete a cell without shifting anything -- ie
leave a hole (non-cell) in the table where the cell had been?


As far as I know, you cannot have a "hole" in a table.

3) when i delete a cell and select "shift cells up", nothing happens.
why?


Never used that... A broken feature?

(i'm using word 2002 sp3 on xp.)


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