Can you delete the contents of multiple cells in a table?
Asked by Robert S Levy:

I have a very large table in confluence and i need to delete the contents of multiple cells. Is there a way to do this in batches (ie: highlight and delete). That does not seem to work and one at a time is tedious.


Answers:
author: Patrick O_Connell
body: I, too, was looking to delete the **contents** of multiple cells in a table, today. What's suggested here is a kludge, not a real solution.

In fact, I wound up deleting the column, then re-adding it---I only lost the heading cell, and I needed to alpha-sort what was below it.

Confluence could be far more functional, with respect to this. Look to Word: You can delete the **contents** of cells, or the **cells themselves.**

Pat O'Connell  
Technical Writer  
MindGeek


author: [Do Not Use]Tryzens Support Analysts
body: Hi All,

You can do this by hilghting the respectve cells and click Shift+delete.

Thanks,  
Sharath Mohandas

Tryzens LiveOperation Services.

comments: author: Cate Page
body: Great! Thank you - this works for row cells. It doesn't seem to work for column cells for me - should it?


author: Dirk Schiller
body: There is a hidden feature in tables to be able to delete cells in a column.

- Put the caret in the first cell you want to empty  
- Now hold Shift-Key and press Arrow-Down-Key that many times how many rows you have minus 1 ( If you have 4 rows press Arrow-Down-Key 3 times )  
- Now press Backspace or Delete Key to empty those cells

**Note**: The selection is only visible in the first Cell not in the others

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This technique also works if you select multiple cells in a row

comments: author: miedlarminprog
body: doesn't work


author: Dirk Schiller
body: What happens when you do it ?


author: arnabbanerjee
body: It actually works! But a bit spooky :)

Works for columns, rows and both combined!.

Btw, if anyone else is trying, CARET is the following key --\> "\`"


author: Dirk Schiller
body: With **caret** I mean the blinking text cursor ( <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation> )


author: henrik_gerdtsson
body: I was struggling with this. I finally found that highlighting the cells using shift + arrow keys and then pressing shift + delete cleared all the highlighted cells.


author: Julien Schr?der
body: Hi,   

I'm having the same problem. When I mark text in a row, it only ends up deleting the last cells' content. Basically, it highlights everything but it super-highlights the last cells' content. What can I do to fix this on Data Center?  

Best,   
Julien


author: Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM
body: Hi Robert,

This should be possible by highlighting the cells you want to delete and then selecting delete. At least on server version this is possible. You can also select multiple columns and rows (highlighting them) and removing them via the bar up top.

comments: author: Bryan Trummer - ReleaseTEAM
body: ![conf.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/31709iD76C59B98C8BF648/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "conf.PNG")

This was the bar I mentioned.


author: Rahul Shah
body: The bar you mentioned only deletes entire row or column, but not the contents of multiple selected cells within the row or column