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Joining Tables
Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead
this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the
rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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The behavior -- especially the one of tabbing from the last cell of the
first table and getting a new row there -- indicates that there must be something between the tables. It might be a paragraph mark that's formatted as hidden text or as 1 point font size, or it might be a "style separator" character which behaves like a hidden paragraph mark. Try turning on nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button). With the cursor at the end of the last cell in the first table, press the right arrow twice; the first one puts the cursor between the last cell and the row marker, and the second one puts it to the left of whatever is separating the tables. Now press the Delete key, and see if that joins the tables. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Idaho Word Man wrote: I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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I have my hidden characters showing (¶ button) and I have my Tools - Options
set to show hidden text. I also have my track changes set to show deleted text as red strikeout. Nothing shows between the tables, and when I set everything to be 12-point type, nothing suddenly appears. When I put my cursor at the end of the row and move one space, hitting delete removes the first character in the first row of the second table. But when I put my cursor at the end of the row and hit Tab, it adds a row. When I center one table, it does not center the other, and when I adjust column widths in one table, it only adjusts them down to the break between the tables. The border between the tables shows as twice as wide as a single cell border should be (borders set to 3/4 point, but between the tables shows twice that wide). I think I'm just going to add rows to the first table and type the information in. There's only about 25 rows in each table. Thanks, Fred "Jay Freedman" wrote: The behavior -- especially the one of tabbing from the last cell of the first table and getting a new row there -- indicates that there must be something between the tables. It might be a paragraph mark that's formatted as hidden text or as 1 point font size, or it might be a "style separator" character which behaves like a hidden paragraph mark. Try turning on nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button). With the cursor at the end of the last cell in the first table, press the right arrow twice; the first one puts the cursor between the last cell and the row marker, and the second one puts it to the left of whatever is separating the tables. Now press the Delete key, and see if that joins the tables. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Idaho Word Man wrote: I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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I also tried pasting the same style onto both tables (one was "Normal" and
the other was "Table Grid"), but that didn't make them join. I also tried accepting all tracked changes, and that didn't make them join. "Jay Freedman" wrote: The behavior -- especially the one of tabbing from the last cell of the first table and getting a new row there -- indicates that there must be something between the tables. It might be a paragraph mark that's formatted as hidden text or as 1 point font size, or it might be a "style separator" character which behaves like a hidden paragraph mark. Try turning on nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button). With the cursor at the end of the last cell in the first table, press the right arrow twice; the first one puts the cursor between the last cell and the row marker, and the second one puts it to the left of whatever is separating the tables. Now press the Delete key, and see if that joins the tables. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Idaho Word Man wrote: I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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Another cause can be having the first row of the second table marked as a
heading row or having one or both tables wrapped. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I have my hidden characters showing (¶ button) and I have my Tools - Options set to show hidden text. I also have my track changes set to show deleted text as red strikeout. Nothing shows between the tables, and when I set everything to be 12-point type, nothing suddenly appears. When I put my cursor at the end of the row and move one space, hitting delete removes the first character in the first row of the second table. But when I put my cursor at the end of the row and hit Tab, it adds a row. When I center one table, it does not center the other, and when I adjust column widths in one table, it only adjusts them down to the break between the tables. The border between the tables shows as twice as wide as a single cell border should be (borders set to 3/4 point, but between the tables shows twice that wide). I think I'm just going to add rows to the first table and type the information in. There's only about 25 rows in each table. Thanks, Fred "Jay Freedman" wrote: The behavior -- especially the one of tabbing from the last cell of the first table and getting a new row there -- indicates that there must be something between the tables. It might be a paragraph mark that's formatted as hidden text or as 1 point font size, or it might be a "style separator" character which behaves like a hidden paragraph mark. Try turning on nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button). With the cursor at the end of the last cell in the first table, press the right arrow twice; the first one puts the cursor between the last cell and the row marker, and the second one puts it to the left of whatever is separating the tables. Now press the Delete key, and see if that joins the tables. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Idaho Word Man wrote: I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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Glad you got it sorted. I've seen that problem in a document where *none* of
the known solutions helped, so I didn't have any confidence that you would succeed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... Hooray! That did it! I unmarked the Heading Row Repeat option and they joined like magic! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Another cause can be having the first row of the second table marked as a heading row or having one or both tables wrapped. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... I have my hidden characters showing (¶ button) and I have my Tools - Options set to show hidden text. I also have my track changes set to show deleted text as red strikeout. Nothing shows between the tables, and when I set everything to be 12-point type, nothing suddenly appears. When I put my cursor at the end of the row and move one space, hitting delete removes the first character in the first row of the second table. But when I put my cursor at the end of the row and hit Tab, it adds a row. When I center one table, it does not center the other, and when I adjust column widths in one table, it only adjusts them down to the break between the tables. The border between the tables shows as twice as wide as a single cell border should be (borders set to 3/4 point, but between the tables shows twice that wide). I think I'm just going to add rows to the first table and type the information in. There's only about 25 rows in each table. Thanks, Fred "Jay Freedman" wrote: The behavior -- especially the one of tabbing from the last cell of the first table and getting a new row there -- indicates that there must be something between the tables. It might be a paragraph mark that's formatted as hidden text or as 1 point font size, or it might be a "style separator" character which behaves like a hidden paragraph mark. Try turning on nonprinting characters (click the ¶ button). With the cursor at the end of the last cell in the first table, press the right arrow twice; the first one puts the cursor between the last cell and the row marker, and the second one puts it to the left of whatever is separating the tables. Now press the Delete key, and see if that joins the tables. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Idaho Word Man wrote: I've also tried adding a row at the bottom of the first table, selecting the rows of the second table, and dragging them up to the first table. Instead of inserting them as rows in the first table, they insert them as a separate table in the last row of the first table. Fred "Idaho Word Man" wrote: Okay, this is probably a really simple problem, but I'm already brain-dead this morning. I have a form that contains two tables, but I want the two to be one. There does not seem to be anything between them (no ¶, for example), but they are behaving as two separate tables, rather than as one. For example, if I'm in the last cell of the first table, tabbing adds a line, rather than taking me to the first cell of the next table. I tried adding a line at the bottom of the first table and another line at the top of the next table, but I couldn't join the cells. (That option wasn't available on the toolbar or the dropdown menu.) How do I join two tables, when there isn't anything between them? I'm running Office 2003 in Windows XP Professional. Thanks, Fred |
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