Microsoft Word - Navigate tables with these keyboard shortcuts

June 2010 NMGI Technology News

The most common method for moving around a table is to click the specific cell you want to go to. However, if the table contains many rows and columns across a page, you could spend a great deal of time scrolling.

Word provides a number of keyboard shortcuts for quickly moving around large tables. Here are some examples:

Press [Alt][Home] to move the cursor to the first cell in the current row.
Press [Alt][End] to move the cursor to the last cell in the current row.
Press [Alt][PageUp] to move the cursor to the first cell in the current column.
Press [Alt][PageDown] to move the cursor to the last cell in the current column.
Press [Tab] to move the cursor to the next cell.
Press [Shift][Tab] to move the cursor to the preceding cell.
To set a tab within a cell, click inside the cell, and press [Ctrl][Tab].