How to Delete a Table (and Table Borders) in Microsoft Word

How to delete a table quickly and easily is shown in this video.

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This video illustrates how to delete a table in Microsoft Word.

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Video Transcript:
In this video we'll take a look at how to delete an entire table in Microsoft Word. Now suppose I have this information here and I want to get rid of it. So I can select all of this. A common thing that people will do is they'll select this entire table and then they'll press Delete on their keyboard and then the information inside the table is removed, but notice the table is still there. So, for example, if i went to print the document you still see the table there. And then it can be confusing, we'll how do I get rid of this thing? Well, what I want to do is I want to select the entire table. I can do that by scrolling through and grabbing all the cells. Or I can just click this button right here which is a quicker way to do it and it'll grab the whole table for me. And then once I do that I want to right-click the mouse and then select Delete Table from that shortcut menu and then it's gone. And when we go to Print Preview just to confirm notice there's no table there any longer. So that looks great. Now, another way to do that is, if I bring that back using Ctrl + z I can also go to the Layout tab and with the cursor flashing somewhere inside the table I can select Delete and then Delete Table and that will also remove it. And as we see confirmed in our Print Preview. OK that's it for deleting a table in Microsoft Word. Thanks for watching.

[piyumitharaka]

thank you.you represent it short and sweet.

[VenturaWeddings]

Nice video. I have a table with no lines that I would like to delete. Over the years this table has been in the middle of a very long 185 page document. The table is about 40 pages of different fonts, sizes, highlights etc so I dont want to unformed the contents as just text. My table has the same tiny plus sign with a square around it in the upper left corner like your example. When clicking this plus box it highlights everything within the table. Any ideas how i can remove this? thx

[anirbansarkar]

Thankyou soo much, it helped me a lot😊👍🏻

[younessbousselham]

just in one click, Thank you so much

[poojachopra]

Thanks for sharing the information 👍 it helped me I wasted lot of time searching 🥴🙄

[maksed_]

But how do you delete table on the second page without table being deleted on the first one

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