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Joining tables
I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and
pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the
second table is not formatted as a heading row. -- 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. "Jackie Smith" wrote in message ... I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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Sorry but I couldn't get it to work. I copied part of an Excel spreadsheet
(no header) and pasted it under a table in Word. For the life of me I cannot join the two tables and have tried all that has been suggested. The only way around for me is to copy to Word table into Excel, this joins easily, I can sort and whatever, then copy and paste back into Word. Defeated. Thanks anyway. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the second table is not formatted as a heading row. -- 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. "Jackie Smith" wrote in message ... I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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Jackie - I am trying to do the same thing.
Did you ever come up with another solution other than taking the table Excel? The tables I want to join have kind lots of formatting...I don't want to redo. (My head is hurting too - I completely relate to your frustration) "Jackie Smith" wrote: Sorry but I couldn't get it to work. I copied part of an Excel spreadsheet (no header) and pasted it under a table in Word. For the life of me I cannot join the two tables and have tried all that has been suggested. The only way around for me is to copy to Word table into Excel, this joins easily, I can sort and whatever, then copy and paste back into Word. Defeated. Thanks anyway. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the second table is not formatted as a heading row. -- 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. "Jackie Smith" wrote in message ... I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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I think I figured out the problem.
(As I'm sure you figured out, that black line just indicates you have two different tables sitting right next to each other -- not functionally sharing a cell border, but visually sharing it). I bet you are a Word 2003 user. I am, and cannot join/merge/append the tables. Users of Word 2002 can delete the paragraph mark and append one table to another with a simple press of the "Delete" key. I found someone to test this with the same document. So somehow Word 2003 took that capability away - at least the user-friendly capability. Perhaps someone more savy than I with Word can figure out a work-around, but it is not built into the program's functionality as far as I can figure. "Gail" wrote: Jackie - I am trying to do the same thing. Did you ever come up with another solution other than taking the table Excel? The tables I want to join have kind lots of formatting...I don't want to redo. (My head is hurting too - I completely relate to your frustration) "Jackie Smith" wrote: Sorry but I couldn't get it to work. I copied part of an Excel spreadsheet (no header) and pasted it under a table in Word. For the life of me I cannot join the two tables and have tried all that has been suggested. The only way around for me is to copy to Word table into Excel, this joins easily, I can sort and whatever, then copy and paste back into Word. Defeated. Thanks anyway. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the second table is not formatted as a heading row. -- 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. "Jackie Smith" wrote in message ... I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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With tables pasted from Excel, all bets are off. Are you sure you pasted as
plain text and not as an object? -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... I think I figured out the problem. (As I'm sure you figured out, that black line just indicates you have two different tables sitting right next to each other -- not functionally sharing a cell border, but visually sharing it). I bet you are a Word 2003 user. I am, and cannot join/merge/append the tables. Users of Word 2002 can delete the paragraph mark and append one table to another with a simple press of the "Delete" key. I found someone to test this with the same document. So somehow Word 2003 took that capability away - at least the user-friendly capability. Perhaps someone more savy than I with Word can figure out a work-around, but it is not built into the program's functionality as far as I can figure. "Gail" wrote: Jackie - I am trying to do the same thing. Did you ever come up with another solution other than taking the table Excel? The tables I want to join have kind lots of formatting...I don't want to redo. (My head is hurting too - I completely relate to your frustration) "Jackie Smith" wrote: Sorry but I couldn't get it to work. I copied part of an Excel spreadsheet (no header) and pasted it under a table in Word. For the life of me I cannot join the two tables and have tried all that has been suggested. The only way around for me is to copy to Word table into Excel, this joins easily, I can sort and whatever, then copy and paste back into Word. Defeated. Thanks anyway. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the second table is not formatted as a heading row. -- 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. "Jackie Smith" wrote in message ... I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on 8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would join a table. Please help. Many thanks Jackie 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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