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Splitting and joining tables
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I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu.
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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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Split Table is also on the context (shortcut) menu for some table contexts.
-- 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. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu. 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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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Hi
Thanks for the tip. The splitting works ok but not the combining of tables. A thick line remains where the two tables are combined and when I run 'sort', the words in the second table remain 'unsorted' and are not incorporated into my main table (the first one) Any ideas on this please "Stefan Blom" a écrit dans le message de news: ... To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu. 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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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The usual reasons for this a
1. The top row of the second table is marked as a heading row. 2. One or more of the tables is wrapped (on the Table tab of Table Properties, make sure wrapping is set to None). 3. Something else. I've seen this problem in a document where nothing I tried worked, and I had to conclude that the document was corrupt. In your case, though, given the "thick line," I'd suggest that there might be an "invisible" paragraph between the tables. If it's Hidden, then displaying nonprinting characters will reveal it, but if it's been formatted as 1 point, it will be harder to flush out. Try selecting the space between the tables and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (in the hope that the font size is direct formatting) or apply Normal style. -- 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. "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks for the tip. The splitting works ok but not the combining of tables. A thick line remains where the two tables are combined and when I run 'sort', the words in the second table remain 'unsorted' and are not incorporated into my main table (the first one) Any ideas on this please "Stefan Blom" a écrit dans le message de news: ... To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu. 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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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Hi Dave,
You could try the following: -- Apply a table style (say Table Grid)... If the difference is due to different cell paddings..., that should take care of it. -- Unfortunartely, not all table properties are set back when you apply a table style, so select the table, go into "Table Properties", check the different tabs, and look for grayed items (indicating that they are not the same for all cells in the table). -- Select the table and use ResetPara (Ctrl+Q)... If the difference is due to manual paragraph formatting, that fixes things. -- Select the table and use Ctrl+Shift+N (= apply Normal style)... in case the difference is in paragraph styles. -- Select the table and use ResetChar (Ctrl+Spacebar) ... in case it's different font formatting or character styles. Maybe you need a combination. At least, this should help to home in on the kind of formatting that's responsible. Regards, Klaus "Dave Neve" wrote: Hi I'm getting there but... The two tables seem like one (the 'sort' function works) but there is still some different behaviour between the original table and the table which was added today (the cell margins are not the same) When I try to standardize a line which has been added today, all the lines added today are changed (although they are no longer together after sorting) It's like there are still two tables within each other and they are not behaving quite the same way. Does this make any sense to you? Thanks PS I tried to copy into this message two adjacent lines which are different but in html display, one of the lines went off the page while the other was ok. So there is definately a difference between them. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" a écrit dans le message de news: ... The usual reasons for this a 1. The top row of the second table is marked as a heading row. 2. One or more of the tables is wrapped (on the Table tab of Table Properties, make sure wrapping is set to None). 3. Something else. I've seen this problem in a document where nothing I tried worked, and I had to conclude that the document was corrupt. In your case, though, given the "thick line," I'd suggest that there might be an "invisible" paragraph between the tables. If it's Hidden, then displaying nonprinting characters will reveal it, but if it's been formatted as 1 point, it will be harder to flush out. Try selecting the space between the tables and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (in the hope that the font size is direct formatting) or apply Normal style. -- 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. "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks for the tip. The splitting works ok but not the combining of tables. A thick line remains where the two tables are combined and when I run 'sort', the words in the second table remain 'unsorted' and are not incorporated into my main table (the first one) Any ideas on this please "Stefan Blom" a écrit dans le message de news: ... To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu. 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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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Repeating my post from earlier today, which seems to have got lost:
The usual reasons for this a 1. The top row of the second table is marked as a heading row. 2. One or more of the tables is wrapped (on the Table tab of Table Properties, make sure wrapping is set to None). 3. Something else. I've seen this problem in a document where nothing I tried worked, and I had to conclude that the document was corrupt. In your case, though, given the "thick line," I'd suggest that there might be an "invisible" paragraph between the tables. If it's Hidden, then displaying nonprinting characters will reveal it, but if it's been formatted as 1 point, it will be harder to flush out. Try selecting the space between the tables and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (in the hope that the font size is direct formatting) or apply Normal style. -- 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. "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hi Thanks for the tip. The splitting works ok but not the combining of tables. A thick line remains where the two tables are combined and when I run 'sort', the words in the second table remain 'unsorted' and are not incorporated into my main table (the first one) Any ideas on this please "Stefan Blom" a écrit dans le message de news: ... To split a table, click Split Table on the Table menu. 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). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Dave Neve" wrote in message ... Hello I can not see a button to split a table into two or to join two tables into one. How is this done please? (just a pointer in the right direction should be enough unless it is complicated) Thanks in advance Dave |
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