Insert/delete single cells

This is a wicked dumb question ... I have a fairly large table of data, and I want to line up the entries in one column with the entries in another. What I need to do is easily insert and delete individual cells? I can insert and delete rows ... I need to insert/delete individual cells.

Many thanks for the helpful tips. I too had the exact question. The "mark for move" technique works just as expected. Yet, I still cannot delete a single empty cell and have the column move upward one cell. After completing shift-command-x and shift-command-v on a single empty cells leaves an empty cell in the source destination. I wanted to delete it. My spreadsheet was small enough to shift blocks of cells upwards using "mark for move" until all the empty cells were at the bottom, whereby I then evoked the delete rows method. It worked but a bit kludgy. Better than before though as I hadn't used the "mark for move",
I'm using Numbers 09 on a Jan 2010 MBP running Mac OS X 10.6.7
regards,
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