Repeating my post from earlier today, which seems to have got lost:

The usual reasons for this a

1. The top row of the second table is marked as a heading row.

2. One or more of the tables is wrapped (on the Table tab of Table
Properties, make sure wrapping is set to None).

3. Something else. I've seen this problem in a document where nothing I
tried worked, and I had to conclude that the document was corrupt.

In your case, though, given the "thick line," I'd suggest that there might
be an "invisible" paragraph between the tables. If it's Hidden, then
displaying nonprinting characters will reveal it, but if it's been formatted
as 1 point, it will be harder to flush out. Try selecting the space between
the tables and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (in the hope that the font size is
direct formatting) or apply Normal style.


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"Dave Neve" wrote in message
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Hi

Thanks for the tip.

The splitting works ok but not the combining of tables.

A thick line remains where the two tables are combined and when I run
'sort', the words in the second table remain 'unsorted' and are not
incorporated into my main table (the first one)

Any ideas on this please
"Stefan Blom" a écrit dans le message de news:
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To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu.

To connect two tables, delete the paragraph mark that separates them.

If tables are separated not only by the paragraph mark but also by text,
you would of course have to delete that to -- or cut and paste it to a
different location.

You may want to display nonprinting marks so that you'll be able to see
paragraph marks. Click the "Show/Hide ¶" button on the Standard toolbar.
Paragraph marks will display as "¶":

|---|--|
| | |
|---|--|
¶
|---|--|
| | |
|---|--|

Note that you cannot connect tables with text wrapping set (on the Table
tab of TableTable Properties).

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"Dave Neve" wrote in message
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Hello

I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables
into
one.

How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should
be
enough unless it is complicated)

Thanks in advance

Dave