User Guide
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You can also use the Cell Borders buttons in the Table inspector to select
a border segment.
To select border segments for either formatting or resizing rows and columns, use m
border selection mode. Choose Allow Border Selection from the Borders pop-up menu
in the format bar or choose Table > Allow Border Selection, and then select the table
you want to work with.
The pointer changes shape when it’s over a horizontal or vertical segment. The pointer
appears to straddle the segment.
The pointer looks like this when
it’s over a horizontal segment.
The pointer looks like this when
it’s over a vertical segment.
To select a long segment, click a cell’s horizontal or vertical border. To change the
selection to a single segment, click it again.
To add a single or long segment to the selection, hold down the Shift or Command key
while clicking.
To deselect a selected single segment, click it while holding down the Shift or
Command key.
To go back and forth between single-segment and long-segment selection, click a border.
To stop using border selection mode, choose Disallow Border Selection from the Borders
pop-up menu in the format bar or choose Table > Disallow Border Selection.
Working with Rows and Columns in Tables
You can quickly add or remove rows and columns, create header rows or columns or
footer rows, and more.
When you insert, remove, resize, hide, or show rows or columns in a table, other
objects on the sheet may be moved to avoid overlapping or to maintain relative
object positions. To prevent automatic movement of objects, choose Numbers >
Preferences and in the General pane deselect “Automatically move objects when
tables resize.”
To learn how to Go to
Insert new rows into a table “Adding Rows to a Table” on page 56
Insert new columns into a table “Adding Columns to a Table” on page 57
Move or copy rows and columns to a dierent
location in the same or a dierent table
“Rearranging Rows and Columns” on page 58