Google-docs – How to move a row in a Google Docs Document table

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[The question is somewhat obsolete; the new behavior does something reasonable on a paste when you've copied an entire row. As far as I can tell, there's still no way to move a row directly. The workflow now is copy a row, insert a new blank row where you want one, paste (the paste now inserts the row correctly), and delete the original row.]

How do you move rows in a Document table? The obvious thing – selecting the entire row, cut, paste – does something very strange (inserts the row as a single cell with a nested table containing the cut row).

Best Answer

You can:

  1. Insert a new table row at the new location for the existing row. To do so, place the mouse pointer on the row where you want to place the new one, then press the left mouse button to open the context menu and choose either "Insert row above" or "Insert row below".
  2. Right-click and drag to select all the contents on the old row, then cut the selected contents (CTRL+X); the old row will remain there but it will be empty.
  3. Right-click on the first cell of the new row to select it, then paste the contents cut before (CTRL+V).
  4. Delete the old row. To do so, place the mouse pointer on the old row, then press the left mouse button to open the context menu and choose "Delete row".

This is obviously not a great solution, but it might be better than recreating the entire table from scratch?

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