I think this is a bug in Word 2003. Any Microsoft software developers
listening? I have found a work around, but some of your fomatting might get
lost. Select one table, then hold the ctrl key while selecting the other
table. While both tables are selcted, right click and go to Table Auto
Format. Under table style, select Table Grid and click on Apply. This joins
the two tables and keeps the formatting pretty close.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Shall I send you a sample?

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Hmmm... I can't replicate that problem. Once wrapping is turned off on the
tables I want to join, they join without hesitation -- even if they have
different numbers/sizes of columns.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Format | Frame: Remove frame. In later versions, Table Properties |
Table
|
Text wrapping: none. But even this doesn't always work. I've had tables
that
were definitely *not* wrapped that still refused to join.

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"Julian Turner" wrote in
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That method certainly was the case for Word 97.

However, I have found that in later versions of word, all tables seem
to
be
floating by default (converted to frames when converted back to Word
97),
which does not permit this join method. The only way I can achieve
this
is
to cut and paste rows. This seems to be a retrograde step.

How can tables be taken out of floating mode, and put back into the
document
flow as in Word 97. Or is this a permanent change?

The filter for converting back to Word 97 is also quite poor when
dealing
with tables. With tables that go over more than one page, these are
put
in a
single frame with content being hidden.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Move one so that it directly follows the other, with no intervening
text,
line breaks, or paragraph marks.

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