Select the row that you want to be the first row of a new table and from the
Tables menu, select Split Table and it will split it for you.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Richard L Rosenheim" wrote in message
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I was hoping for a more foolproof solution. I don't always remember, don't
always have the mouse in the right position, and occasionally even delete
the blank line...

Thanks for the reply anyway,

Richard Rosenheim


"Anne Troy" wrote in message
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Put something between then, Richard. Like a paragraph return.
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"Richard L Rosenheim" wrote in message
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Using Word 2003, I'm working on a design document, and I'm using tables
to
control the formatting of blocks. But, when I paste a block, one after
another, Word is automatically merging the two tables into a single
table.
Which besides making it difficult to edit the contents of, is screwing
up
the spacing between the blocks.

Is there a way of preventing Word from automatically merging the
tables
together?

TIA,

Richard