There appears to be either a bug or a strange problem which causes the 'insert table' function to work differently in IE 7.0 against Firefox 2.0.

 

In Firefox, by clicking on the 'insert table' button a dialog is displayed. I select the default property values then press the OK button. At this point I am able to select entire columns in the table.

 

However, in IE 7.0 when I click on the 'insert table' button I instead see a small 'Draw Table' popup display immediately underneath the 'insert table' button where I am able to specify how many rows and columns I would like.

At this stage the new table is inserted but when I attempt to select a column, what happens is that cells from the previous column are also selected. This is a problem as my users would like to set the text justification for all cells in a single column.

 

Please help.