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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Deleting Tables or the Contents of a Table</title>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155918" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">You can delete a table from your document, or delete the contents of the table.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155863" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">To delete a whole table, click in the table, and then choose <emph>Table - Delete - Table</emph>.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153415" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="6">To delete the contents of a table, click in the table, press <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command
</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+A <comment>UFI: Ctrl+A once is not enough</comment>until all cells are selected, and then press Delete or Backspace.</paragraph>
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