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How do I join 2 tables
After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the
paragraph mark between the 2 tables. Now that I have upgraded to Word 2003, I can't join the two tables back up again. When I try to delete the paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate tables. I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again. -- Stacy Nagyvary Facilities Manager Excel Staffing Companies |
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:25:01 -0800, "stacynagyvary" stacyvary wrote:
After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the paragraph mark between the 2 tables. Now that I have upgraded to Word 2003, I can't join the two tables back up again. When I try to delete the paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate tables. I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again. When you delete the paragraph, do the tables move together but appear to have a heavier border between them, as if each is contributing a separate border? And moving the edges of the columns in one doesn't move them in the other? It's possible that one of the tables has been changed to floating (like a text box), which is easy to do accidentally. Put the cursor in each table in turn, go to Table Table Properties, and make sure the text wrapping is set to None instead of Around. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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FWIW, I had an old document containing two tables with identical formatting
separated by some text. I deleted the text and could not get the tables to join. Neither was floating; neither was nested. They were just very ordinary (two-column, borderless) tables. I was on deadline and so just did what I had to do to make the results work, but I'm still curious about what sort of odd corruption was causing the problem. For some reason we're seeing a lot more reports of that sort of thing in Word 2003. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:25:01 -0800, "stacynagyvary" stacyvary wrote: After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the paragraph mark between the 2 tables. Now that I have upgraded to Word 2003, I can't join the two tables back up again. When I try to delete the paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate tables. I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again. When you delete the paragraph, do the tables move together but appear to have a heavier border between them, as if each is contributing a separate border? And moving the edges of the columns in one doesn't move them in the other? It's possible that one of the tables has been changed to floating (like a text box), which is easy to do accidentally. Put the cursor in each table in turn, go to Table Table Properties, and make sure the text wrapping is set to None instead of Around. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Unfortunately, changing the text wrapping in Table Properties Cell did not
fix the problem. The only way I found to join the two tables again was to highlight one table, then highlight the other table while holding the ctl key. With both tables highlighted, I right clicked and selected Table Reformat. This turned the two tables back into one table, but all the formatting was lost. So I ended up fudging it, adding new rows to one of the tables and then pasting the info from the other table into the new rows. Either way, this is a lot more time consuming that it was in Word 2000. Bummer. I would greatly appreciate any other suggestions. I use tables in Word a lot and this is going to drive me crazy. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:25:01 -0800, "stacynagyvary" stacyvary wrote: After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the paragraph mark between the 2 tables. Now that I have upgraded to Word 2003, I can't join the two tables back up again. When I try to delete the paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate tables. I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again. When you delete the paragraph, do the tables move together but appear to have a heavier border between them, as if each is contributing a separate border? And moving the edges of the columns in one doesn't move them in the other? It's possible that one of the tables has been changed to floating (like a text box), which is easy to do accidentally. Put the cursor in each table in turn, go to Table Table Properties, and make sure the text wrapping is set to None instead of Around. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I suspect (and hope) that one of those two specific tables was
corrupted in some way, and this is not standard behavior for tables in documents brought forward from previous versions. Has this happened to other similar documents? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:15:05 -0800, "stacynagyvary" stacyvary wrote: Unfortunately, changing the text wrapping in Table Properties Cell did not fix the problem. The only way I found to join the two tables again was to highlight one table, then highlight the other table while holding the ctl key. With both tables highlighted, I right clicked and selected Table Reformat. This turned the two tables back into one table, but all the formatting was lost. So I ended up fudging it, adding new rows to one of the tables and then pasting the info from the other table into the new rows. Either way, this is a lot more time consuming that it was in Word 2000. Bummer. I would greatly appreciate any other suggestions. I use tables in Word a lot and this is going to drive me crazy. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:25:01 -0800, "stacynagyvary" stacyvary wrote: After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the paragraph mark between the 2 tables. Now that I have upgraded to Word 2003, I can't join the two tables back up again. When I try to delete the paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate tables. I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again. When you delete the paragraph, do the tables move together but appear to have a heavier border between them, as if each is contributing a separate border? And moving the edges of the columns in one doesn't move them in the other? It's possible that one of the tables has been changed to floating (like a text box), which is easy to do accidentally. Put the cursor in each table in turn, go to Table Table Properties, and make sure the text wrapping is set to None instead of Around. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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