Keyboard shortcuts useful for table editing
To do this | Press |
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Select a cell | Click on the cell using mouse |
Select the neighbor cell | Use arrow keys, i.e. LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN |
Start editing a cell | Select the cell and press ENTER or double click using mouse |
Stop editing a cell | ESC |
Remove the cell contents and start editing it | F2 |
Remove the cell contents | Select the cell(s) (but do not edit it) and press DEL |
Start editing the next cell | TAB |
Start editing the previous cell | SHIFT + TAB |
Select all cells | CTRL + A |
Select multiple cells | Use arrows keys while holding SHIFT to grow or shrink the current selection |
Select the first cell in a table | CTRL + HOME |
Undo / redo the last change to a table | CTRL + Z / CTRL + Y |
Change font style to bold | CTRL + B |
Change font style to italic | CTRL + I |
Underline text | CTRL + U |
Insert a link (HTML tables only) | CTRL + K |
Change text alignment to left, center, right | CTRL + L / CTRL + E / CTRL + R |