Remember, the * indicates the starting position of the cell and the green stripe is where you need to click your mouse in order to get into the cell.

1. When you first insert a new table and do nothing in the table yet, each cell has only one line. You will have no trouble getting into a cell by clicking anywhere in the cell.

2. But when you type several lines of text or insert an image and do nothing to the other cells of the same row, you are NOT supposed to click on the top-left corner of the cells to get into them. The default horizontal alignment is left and vertical alignment is CENTER. You have to click your mouse very close to the CENTER stripe to be able to get into that cell. For example,

3. When you hit Enter key on the keyboard, it starts a new line for you. Even if you don't see anything in the line, it is a real line and will change the position of the  *. For example, in the left cell of the first row in the following table, line 3 and line 5 take out space and influence the position of the * . Moreover, in the right cell of the second row, I hit Enter key four times. Even if we don't see anything in this cell, the position of the * in its left neighbor cell moves to the CENTER. Therefore, you have to click your mouse near the center stripe of the cell to get into it.

4. Instead of clicking the cursor to get into cells, you can use the Tab key and four arrow keys (up, down, left, & right) on the keyboard to navigate through the cells.

5. You can change the default alignment of the cell. Refer to the Cell properties in Lesson 6.

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