

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.
