#Right click new microsoft word document missing plus
(Or double-checking before actually clicking.) It is, for instance, possible to still be pointing inside the tool's plus sign and have the mouse pointer change to show you are going to select a column or row. The addition of the tools did complicate some traditional table operations (as in the width and height changes), which means that a user now has to be a little more careful in watching where they click.
For instance, you may be trying to change the width of columns or height of rows by dragging the dividing lines, but if you click at the wrong time you end up actually adding an unwanted column or row. For some people-like Gary-the tool is a bother, as it can be a bit confusing where to actually click to get the results you want. If you click on the plus sign, then Word dutifully adds either a column or row, as appropriate for the tool. You can see the tools when, as Gary said, you move the mouse pointer above a column divider or to the left of a row divider.
The Insert Column and Insert Row tools first made their appearance in Word 2013. Gary finds this feature to be distracting and more trouble than it is worth, so he wonders if it is possible to turn it off. Gary notes that as he works in a table and moves the mouse pointer above a line dividing two columns or to the left of a line separating two rows, he sees a "circled plus sign" appear, indicating that he can click to insert a column or row.