Select the two or more cells you want to combine, right-click, and choose
Merge Cells.

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"intouch" wrote in message
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Yes... I am trying to adopt terminology from an Adobe product called
FrameMaker to Word. They refer to the process as "straddling". Thanks for
your help.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Is this something that merging cells will accomplish?

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"intouch" wrote in message
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I am using Word 2003 and need to straddle two or more cells in a
table.
How
can I do this?