How do you move a row in a Google Docs Document table?

Question

How do you move rows in a Document table? The obvious thing - selecting the entire row, cut, paste - does something very strange (inserts the row as a single cell with a nested table containing the cut row).

Answer 1

The short answer is you can't. You will have to recreate the table manually.

You used to be able to manually edit the table in your Google Doc using HTML view but this functionality has been removed.

Answer 2

You can:

1. Insert a new table row at the new location for the existing row.
2. One cell at a time, cut and paste cell contents from the old row to the new row.
3. Delete the old row.

This is obviously not a great solution, but it might be better than recreating the entire table from scratch?

Answer 3

You can copy table to google spreadsheets, move row there and then select it and click on "Web Clipboard" button (fourth from the left between paint and redo), copy. And then via this button put it back to you google document. Also not very great, but saves time.