Making table or cell selections
After you select a row, column, or cell in a table, you can delete the selection, copy and paste it, or drag the selection to move it within the table or to create a new table. Selecting cells or nested tables can become difficult as you add images and other content to a table. GoLive provides you with a variety of ways to select cells, rows, columns, and nested tables to suit your needs. You can make selections directly in the document window, in the markup tree bar, or in an outline of the table in the Select tab of the Table palette. The Select tab shows a table as a bare outline, and enables you to make cell or nested table selections without the risk of resizing the selection or selecting content inside the cell. Selected cells are outlined in bold in the document window and in the Table palette, and highlighted in source code views. In the Layout editor or Table palette, you can drag the black rectangle in the upper left corner of the selected cells to move the cells within the table or to create a new table. Selecting a table cell with the Select tab of the Table palette A. Selected table cell B. Nested table (Cells within nested tables appear only when the nested table is selected.) If you place an insertion point in a table cell, select content in a cell, or select a table cell, you can press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Control+Return (Mac OS) to expand the selection outward.
To select a table or nested table: Do one of the following: - Select a cell in the table and press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Control+Return (Mac OS). Or place an insertion point in the table or select content within a table cell and press the keys twice.
- In the document window, move the pointer over the top or left edge of the table until the pointer changes to the table selection pointer
, and then click. - In the document window, place an insertion point in the table or select content within a table cell. Choose Select Table from the context menu in either the document window or the Select tab in the Table palette, or click the <table> tag in the markup tree bar at the bottom of the page.
- To select a nested table, in the Select Tab of the Table palette, move the pointer over the nested table until the pointer changes to the Nested Table pointer
and click. Click the Select Parent Table button in the Table palette to reselect the parent table and zoom out of the nested table.
To select rows: Do one of the following: - In the document window or Select tab of the Table palette, move the pointer over the left edge of a row until it changes to the row selection pointer
, and then click. Drag up or down to add adjacent rows to your selection. Alternatively, with the row selection pointer, Shift-click the left edge of each additional row. - Place an insertion point in the row, and click the rightmost <tr> tag in the markup tree bar at the bottom of the page. To add rows to your selection, move the pointer over the left edge of each additional row in the document window until it changes to the row selection pointer, and then Shift-click.
- Place an insertion point anywhere in the table, click the <table> tag in the markup tree bar at the bottom of the page, drag to display a pop-up menu, and then choose the <tr> tag for a row. To add rows to your selection, move the pointer over the left edge of each additional row in the document window until it changes to the row selection pointer, then Shift-click.
 Selecting a table row with the markup tree bar
To select columns: In the document window or the Select tab of the Table palette, move the pointer over the top edge of a column until the pointer changes to the column selection pointer , then click. Drag left or right to add adjacent columns to your selection. Alternatively, with the column selection pointer, Shift-click the top edge of each additional column.
To select cells: Do one of the following: - In the document window, move the pointer over the cell's bottom or right edge until the pointer changes to an arrow
(Windows) or (Mac OS), and then click. Drag from the selected cell to add adjacent cells to your selection. Alternatively, Shift-click inside each additional cell. - Place an insertion point in the cell, and either click the rightmost <td> tag in the markup tree bar at the bottom of the page, press Ctrl+Enter (Windows) or Control+Return (Mac OS), or choose Special > Table > Select Cell.
- In the Select tab of the Table palette, click to select a cell. Click-drag from the selected cell to add adjacent cells to your selection. Alternatively, Shift-click each additional cell.
- To select all cells, select any corner cell in the document window or the Select tab of the Table palette, and then drag over all cells in the table. You can also select a cell, and choose Edit > Select All.
- To invert the selection of cells within a row or column, move the pointer over the left edge of the row or the top edge of the column until it changes to the row or column selection pointer
, , and then Shift-click. (GoLive deselects previously active cells in the row or column and selects previously inactive cells.)
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