A contiguous sequence of paragraphs within the text stream of a document that is partitioned into subsequences of paragraphs called cells. The last paragraph of each cell is terminated by a special paragraph mark called a cell mark. Following the cell mark that ends the last cell of a table row, the table row is terminated by a special paragraph mark called a row mark. When Word displays a table row, it assigns a rectangular shaped display area to each cell in the row. All of the cell display area's top's are aligned at the same vertical position on a page. The leftmost display area in a table row is assigned to the 0th cell of the row; the next display area to the right is assigned to the 1st cell of the row, etc. The text of the cell is wrapped to fit its display area. As more text is added to the cell, the cell display area extends downward. A set of table properties that determine how many cells are in a row, where the horizontal boundaries of cell display areas are, and what borders are drawn around each cell in the table is stored for the row mark that marks the end of the table row.