@synnack: 
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Do you want to start a selection outside a table some lines before the table and
end the selection somewhere in the middle of the table?

Please explain why you think that the observed behaviour might be a bug.

Sorry, my bad.

The problem is that when there's a table on the top of the page and there's no
text (or empty line) above the table, it is not possible to make a selection
past the end of the table

The proper way to reproduce:
1) Create an empty document
2) Create a table on top of the page
3) Create some text below the table
4) Try to select the table and the text

There's no way to do that, because the selection is in a different mode
(cell/row selection).

Same root cause as issue 7747.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 7747 ***

CLosing duplicate.