What Does the Box in my Table Mean?

[Jerry]

I hate to be stupid, but there's something I don't really understand about
tables in Word 2007.

I have a 16-page table in a document. On every page, somewhere toward the
middle of the page, there's a little blue box with a four-way arrow in it.
If I click the box, it selects the table. Is that all it does, or is there
some underlying function to that box?

I haven't noticed this box in other multi-page tables before, but maybe I
just haven't looked.

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's the "table handle." If you drag it, you can move the table (this is a
liability because if you move the table or even inadvertently nudge it, it
becomes wrapped). It also selects the table. In previous versions, you could
double-click it to open the Table Properties dialog; unfortunately, that
doesn't work in Word 2007.

Note that if you have a table handle on every page, then you don't have a
16-page table: you have 16 pages of tables, probably one per page.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org