Hi Suzanne
Thanks for the input. As it turns out, after I posted the question I trolled
around in this site and found a number of posts and replies on the same
question. I was able to delete the paragraph mark by it didn't join the
tables - no matter what I tried, and after I made sure there was no word
wrapping and removed the heading rows (no nesting involved). So I ended up
adding rows to the first table and just cutting/pasting the contents from the
second table into them. It was a pain to reformat row sizes, but not as much
of a pain as racking my head on the challenge.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete.
Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can
happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second
table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is
involved.

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"Gail" wrote in message
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How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one
table?