Convert Google Docs Table to Spreadsheet – How to Guide

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?

I will assume you're not using Chrome, which is why my answer is relevant.

Check out this article on copy/pasting in Google Drive documents:

When working in Chrome, you can use the right-click menu to copy and paste content (or select "Copy" or "Paste" from the Edit menu in the toolbar).

When using the right-click-context menu in Drive, the stuff you cut/copy/paste is stored in a different place (in Chrome). Therefore, if not using Chrome, you won't be able to use the menu options. The keyboard shortcuts still work because those pieces are stored elsewhere (on the system clipboard, not browser).

Update: a little more context - Chrome uses its own web clipboard. Why? I'm not 100% certain but I think it's so that you can preserve things when pasting across files or apps (like Spreadsheets to Documents, etc) which you can't do with the traditional system clipboard. Since the context-menu is also native to the app that it's running (in this case your Drive and Chrome are all connected together), the context-menu will behave differently when used in Firefox. This is because those specific options are looking to access the Chrome clipboard, which it cannot.

My answer becomes even more conjecture at this point: I would bet that the Ctrl+C event is overwritten in Chrome to copy/cut to the Chrome clipboard, but would naturally default to the system clipboard if not in Chrome. The context-menu doesn't behave the same way because, well, I have no idea :) Might be something to bring up in a product forum though...