Delete a table in Word

Applies To
Word for Microsoft 365 Word 2024 Word 2021

Click your cursor in the table so that the table move handle appears outside the upper left corner, click the table move handle and press the Backspace key.

A table showing the table move handle

If the table move handle doesn’t appear, the document might not be in Print Layout view. To switch to Print Layout view, select the Print Layout button at the bottom right of the Word window next to the Zoom slider.

The Print Layout view indicator icon.

For information on deleting only part of the table, see Delete a cell, column, or row in a table.

Delete the contents of the table

To delete the information that’s inside a table, select that part of the table, and then press the Delete key. The rows and columns remain along with any formatting, but all the content disappears.

More things you can do with tables