Selecting a Row in a Table
You can quickly select a row in a table by doing the following:
1. | Click any cell in your table.
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2. | On the ribbon, above the Layout tab, click Table Tools.
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3. | In the Select group, click Select Rows.
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To select a row more quickly, right-click any table
cell, click Table on the shortcut menu that appears, and then click
Select Rows.
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If
the plural form in the Select Rows command seems out of place, it’s
because you can use this command to select multiple rows, not just the
current row. To do this, click any cell in the first row that you want
to select, hold down the Shift key, and then click any cell in the last
row that you want to select. When you now use the Select Rows command,
either on the ribbon or on the right-click menu, OneNote will select
all of the rows between and including the rows of the two cells you
selected.
After any row is selected, you can format it with the font, font size, font style, text color, or cell alignment you want.
Selecting a Single Cell in a Table
You can quickly select any cell in a table by doing the following:
1. | Click any cell in your table.
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2. | On the ribbon, above the Layout tab, click Table Tools.
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3. | In the Select group, click Select Cell.
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To select a cell more quickly, right-click any table
cell, click Table on the shortcut menu that appears, and then click
Select Cell. An even faster way to select a single table cell is by
triple-clicking it.
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Aligning Text Within a Table Cell
After you have selected any cell, row, or column in
your table, you can change the alignment of text or objects within the
selected cells.
To align text within a table cell, do the following:
1. | Select the cells whose text you want to align.
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2. | On the ribbon, above the Layout tab, click Table Tools.
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3. | In the Alignment group, click the alignment you want (Align Left, Center, Align Right).
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To
change the alignment of cells more quickly, select the cells you want,
and then on the Home tab, click the arrow next to the Paragraph
Alignment button. On the pop-up menu that appears, click Align Left,
Center, or Align Right. The buttons in these two different locations do
the same thing. Keyboard shortcuts are also available for two of these
commands: Press Ctrl+L to align text in the selected cells to the left
or press Ctrl+R to align it to the right. A keyboard shortcut for
centering text within selected table cells is not available.
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Showing and Hiding Table Borders
When you create a table in OneNote, its cells are
divided by a visible grid to help keep the information in the table
cells visually separated. In most cases, this makes the information
easier to read.
If you use tables as a page layout or spacing tool
for information or objects on your notes page, you can hide the table
borders.
To hide table borders, do the following:
1. | Click any cell in the table whose borders you want to hide.
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2. | On the ribbon, above the Layout tab, click Table Tools.
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3. | In the Borders group, click Hide Borders.
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The Hide Borders command is an On/Off toggle, which
means you can restore table borders by repeating the previous steps.
Clicking the Hide Borders command again when it is selected (the button
on the ribbon will appear orange) turns off the option.
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To hide table borders more quickly, right-click any
table cell, click Table on the shortcut menu that appears, and then
click Hide Borders. To quickly show the borders again, repeat the same
steps. Clicking Hide Borders on the shortcut menu again turns off the
option.
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Because table borders disappear completely when you
do this, it’s the very last thing you should do after you have
formatted the table contents the way you want them to appear.
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When
the borders of a table are hidden, you can still navigate through or
select its individual cells, if necessary. Click anywhere in the
borderless table to activate any cell and then use the directional
arrow keys on your keyboard to go to the cell you want. You can also
use the mouse to interact with any part of a borderless table. For
example, moving the mouse pointer over an invisible column border will
display the column resize pointer. In most cases, though, it’s simply
easier to temporarily display the borders again if you need to reformat
any part of a table.
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