How to delete MS Word table cell contents but not cells?

Question

I am running MS Word 2007. Is it possible to delete the contents of a table without deleting the actual cells? I've tried highlighting a bunch of cells and hitting the <kbd>Backspace</kbd> button but with this method the cells get deleted along with their contents.

Answer 1

In my version of MS Word, if the cell data is highlighted and cut the cells remain intact, but the data is removed. You can cut data in several ways:

1. using the scissors icon on the ribbon at the top of the page, or
2. <ctrl> + X on a PC
3. <command> + X on a mac
4. right click the mouse and select cut from the pop-up menu

Answer 2

You can just select all of the contents of the table by clicking on the table selector at the top left. 

Then just press the delete key. 

1. Delete will get rid of the contents while leaving the table structure.
2. Backspace will get rid of the contents and table structure.