With tables pasted from Excel, all bets are off. Are you sure you pasted as
plain text and not as an object?

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"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.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"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 "¶":

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Note that you cannot connect tables with text wrapping set
(on the
Table
tab of TableTable Properties).