Working with tables in Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel sometimes causes difficulties for novice users. It is difficult to learn how to use all the tools at once and enter text without mistakes. Sometimes incorrect data is entered into cells. There are several steps you need to take to clear cells in a table.
Instructions
Step 1
Working with tables in Microsoft Office Word documents begins with the Insert tab. Go to it and create a table using the tools from the "Table" section. You can insert a table by specifying the required number of columns and rows using a template, or draw it yourself using the "Draw Table" command.
Step 2
When your table is created, the "Work with Tables" context menu becomes available. Two tabs - "Design" and "Layout" will help you style borders, position text, set the size of cells and much more. To make the menu available, select your table by clicking on the icon in the form of intersecting arrows in the upper left corner of the table or place the cursor in any of the cells.
Step 3
To clear several cells (cells) in the table at once, select them while holding down the left mouse button. If the data you want to delete is in non-contiguous cells, hold down the Ctrl key while selecting. After selecting all the necessary cells, press the Delete key, and the cells will be cleared.
Step 4
To delete data from one cell, position the cursor to the right of the last entered character or select a piece of text that you want to delete and press the Backspase or Delete key. The main thing, remember that when working with text in a cell (cell), a fragment can be deleted using any of the named keys, and when working with a selected cell, only the Delete key. If you press the Backspace key, you will not clear the cells, but delete them.
Step 5
In Microsoft Office Excel documents, you can clear cells in the same way, but there is a slight difference. A sheet in Excel is itself a table. To remove text from a cell, select the desired cells and press the Delete or Backspase key. To erase characters, double-click the left mouse button in the desired cell, position the cursor to the right of the last entered character and press the Backspace key.
Step 6
If you erase text in a cell character by character, and not entirely, remember that the Delete key deletes the printable characters located to the right of the mouse cursor, and the Backspace key erases characters that are located to the left of the cursor.
