My previous reply may have been irrelevant for your situation.
Instead, make sure to turn off the table wrap (TableTable Properties,
Table tab), to get control over the paste operation.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"CAJ" wrote in message
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When I cut or copy a table from my Word document and paste it back
in another
location within the document, part of the table becomes nested
inside the
rest. The caption is also enclosed in the 'outer' table.