This upgrade will enable users to manage their content in tables much more quickly and efficiently.

Adding a row or column couldn’t be easier.

Moving rows and columns will be similarly intuitive.

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Surprisingly, though, this new feature isn’t scheduled to be available in the desktop app.

Whether the developers at Microsoft decide to add it to its subscription package remains to be seen.

This update will be welcomed by those who use Word online frequently, asmanaging tablesis notoriously complicated and non-intuitive.

An Excel table with a named range.

Word for the web’s new ‘add row’ feature, with the cursor over the newly-added ‘+’ button.

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Word for the web’s new ‘move column’ feature, with the handle for moving a column appearing at the top to be clicked and dragged.

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