The fact that no one can offer a solution suggests that there are times when
the best you can hope for is a workaround. I also have experienced this: a
table that actually was a single table to begin with, which had been split
and refused to rejoin. If it absolutely, positively has to be a single
table, sometimes the best you can do is add rows to the first table and
paste the content of the second table into it.

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"Romie" wrote in message
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I see several posts concerning this topic with no useful resolution
("when I do it it works" is not useful). At the moment I'm attempting
to merge two previously created tables with the same number of columns
with "distribute columns evenly" and "autofit to windows" set for both.
I have gone to "Properties" and cleared all specifications. I'm using
MS Word 2002 SP3 with Windows XP, when I remove the paragraph mark
between the two tables they do not merge. This is a continual, very
annoying, problem.