Here's how I figure it:
If you select two or more cells, copy and paste, you get a table of however
many cells you've selected.
A PPT native table is, for all intents and purposes, a group of rectangles with
text in them; PPT treats them a bit differently as a table, but the special
treatment revolves around their relationship to one another as parts of a
table.
Remove all but one cell and what you have left is a text box.
And in fact if you select all the text in a cell, copy and paste gets you a
text box (though for some unfortunate reason, not one that retains the
formatting of the original table by default, but if you choose "Keep source
formatting" from the intelliwhatsisthingie, it works.
That would be a good question, Mark! I've never noticed it before, but when
I just tried it here in PPT 2003 with a native PPT table, I'm also unable to
select just one cell. There's no "select cell" option available on the
Tables toolbar, either.
Hmmm...
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Mark.W. said:
That would be the problem, I cannot select a single cell.
I can drag the mouse to select 2 or more cells or right click and select the
table.
How do you select just one cell?
Echo S said:
How are you selecting the cell?
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I have an embedded table and would like to select one cell at a time to
copy/paste later. I can only select two or more cells.
