Keystroke to jump the cursor to the next row directly

[Joey Cheung]

Hi everyone,

In a word table, I know that Alt + Up arrow and Alt + Down arrow will move the cursor to the right and left cell respectively.

Wondering is there any keystroke that can jump the cursor to the cell below (i.e. next row) directly even when there is multiple lines in a cell?

Coz when there is multiple lines in a cell, the down arrow/ up arrow would only allow me to jump to the next line within the same cell rather than jumping to the cell of the next row directly.



Thanks in advance!

[gmayor]

If the cursor is at the start of a cell with multiple lines then as you have discovered the Down Arrow will move to the next row. The range of shortcuts for Word tables is:

TAB Next cell in a row
SHIFT+TAB Previous cell in a row
ALT+HOME First cell in a row
ALT+END Last cell in a row
ALT+PAGE UP First cell in a column
ALT+PAGE DOWN Last cell in a column
UP ARROW Previous row
DOWN ARROW Next row

You could always assign a keyboard shortcut to a macro e.g.

Sub MoveDownARow()
Dim oRng As Range
    If Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) Then
        Set oRng = Selection.Cells(1).Range
        oRng.End = oRng.End - 1
        oRng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
        oRng.Select
        Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1
    End If
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm