[blawhon]

Using the enter key does not treat them as distinct tables. Yes, I wanted
all one table with matching column lines. My solution yesterday was create a
new table. However, I found the answer thanks to another word processor and
ILTA. The solution was to copy, paste all 3 tables into Wordpad, then copy,
paste back to Word, then, this part is from the word processor, highlighting
all 3 tables, in Table, take table to text then back, text to table and the
table was unbelievably beautiful. Voila! Thanks for the suggestions though
I appreciate it.

"Mindy, the confused one" wrote:

Are you able to separate the tables vertically using the enter key then treat
them as 3 distinct tables or are you trying to make them all into 1 table
with aligned columns?

If it's not a large table, you may have the best luck with creating a new
table with the column widths you want, then highlight (I use double and
triple clicks for speed) and drag/drop text into the columns in the new table
that are most appropriate.