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Quickly select all single-cell tables in Word

Author: Sun Last Modified: 2025-03-25

If you need to quickly delete or modify all single-cell tables in a Word document, the first step is to select them efficiently. Manually selecting each one can be time-consuming, especially in documents with mixed table formats. With the Select Single Cell Tables tool in Kutools for Word, you can easily select all single-cell tables from the entire document or from a specific selection with just one click.

Select all single-cell tables from the whole document

Select all single-cell tables from a selection of the document

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Click Kutools > Tables > Select Single Cell Tables. See screenshot:

Select Single Cell Tables option in Kutools Tables menu

Select all single-cell tables from the whole document

To select all single-cell tables in the entire document, follow these steps:

  1. Place the cursor outside of any table, then click Kutools > Tables > Select Single Cell Tables.
  2. In the pop-up Select dialog, click the Yes button.
    Confirmation dialog for selecting single-cell tables
  3. A Kutools for Word dialog appears showing how many single-cell tables have been selected. Click the OK button to proceed.
    Dialog showing number of single-cell tables selected

All single-cell tables in the document are now selected. See the screenshots below:

A document containing single-cell tables
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Single cell tables selected

Select all single-cell tables from a selection of the document

To select all single-cell tables within a selected portion of the document, follow these steps:

  1. Select the portion of the document that contains the tables.
  2. Click Kutools > Tables > Select Single Cell Tables.
  3. In the pop-up Kutools dialog, click the OK button.
    Dialog confirming selected single-cell tables in selected range

All single-cell tables in the selected range are now highlighted. See the screenshots below:

Document selection before selecting single-cell tables
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Document selection after single-cell tables have been selected

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