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how do you append one table to another in Word 2003
I'm having various people enter information in a table. The table is the
same for everyone. I want to combine all the tables into one master document. I have opened one of the documents and inserted the others in as a file but they still appear as individual tables not one table. If I want to add a column I have to do it in each document inserted. Is there another way to do this so that I end up with one large table? |
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how do you append one table to another in Word 2003
Hi Robert
Click the ¶ button on the toolbar (or do ctrl-Shift-8). You'll see a ¶ sign for each paragraph. If you have two tables separated by a ¶, then delete it. The two tables will instantly become one. For more info about the signs, see What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Robert Perry" Robert wrote in message ... I'm having various people enter information in a table. The table is the same for everyone. I want to combine all the tables into one master document. I have opened one of the documents and inserted the others in as a file but they still appear as individual tables not one table. If I want to add a column I have to do it in each document inserted. Is there another way to do this so that I end up with one large table? |
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how do you append one table to another in Word 2003
Alas, Word 2003 doesn't reliably append tables. I have two, seven-column
tables from different documents. I copied and pasted one into the other, fiddled the column widths to make them match up, and removed the little paragraph mark. The tables appeared to jam together, but didn't join. (For example, I couold position the cursor in one or the other, click select table, and only select one of them.) I tried splitting the second table and re-removing the paragraph mark. No joy. I tried converting both to text with a variety of separators, then converting back - and got a variety of entertaining messes - but not the combined table I was after. Fortunately, my wife runs Word 2000. I saved the 2003 doc to her laptop, removed the paragraph mark in 2000, saved it, ran back upstairs, opened the doc and voila - one table! So, there is a bug in 2003 that causes this table append to break sometimes. Ed "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Robert Click the ¶ button on the toolbar (or do ctrl-Shift-8). You'll see a ¶ sign for each paragraph. If you have two tables separated by a ¶, then delete it. The two tables will instantly become one. For more info about the signs, see What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Robert Perry" Robert wrote in message ... I'm having various people enter information in a table. The table is the same for everyone. I want to combine all the tables into one master document. I have opened one of the documents and inserted the others in as a file but they still appear as individual tables not one table. If I want to add a column I have to do it in each document inserted. Is there another way to do this so that I end up with one large table? |
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I have experienced this, too, so I can attest that you're not making it up.
Just to be on the safe side, though, make absolutely sure that wrapping on all the tables is set to "None" and that you have no rows selected as heading rows in the tables after the first. -- 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. "Ed" wrote in message ... Alas, Word 2003 doesn't reliably append tables. I have two, seven-column tables from different documents. I copied and pasted one into the other, fiddled the column widths to make them match up, and removed the little paragraph mark. The tables appeared to jam together, but didn't join. (For example, I couold position the cursor in one or the other, click select table, and only select one of them.) I tried splitting the second table and re-removing the paragraph mark. No joy. I tried converting both to text with a variety of separators, then converting back - and got a variety of entertaining messes - but not the combined table I was after. Fortunately, my wife runs Word 2000. I saved the 2003 doc to her laptop, removed the paragraph mark in 2000, saved it, ran back upstairs, opened the doc and voila - one table! So, there is a bug in 2003 that causes this table append to break sometimes. Ed "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi Robert Click the ¶ button on the toolbar (or do ctrl-Shift-8). You'll see a ¶ sign for each paragraph. If you have two tables separated by a ¶, then delete it. The two tables will instantly become one. For more info about the signs, see What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean? http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...PrintChars.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Robert Perry" Robert wrote in message ... I'm having various people enter information in a table. The table is the same for everyone. I want to combine all the tables into one master document. I have opened one of the documents and inserted the others in as a file but they still appear as individual tables not one table. If I want to add a column I have to do it in each document inserted. Is there another way to do this so that I end up with one large table? |
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how do you append one table to another in Word 2003
Wrapping was off (by chance) and I had turned off heading rows all around,
suspecting that it might be a problem. So, there is a problem and a workaround. But, my wife tells me that she's moving to 2003, so I might be back in the market for a more general fix. ... ;-) Ed "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have experienced this, too, so I can attest that you're not making it up. Just to be on the safe side, though, make absolutely sure that wrapping on all the tables is set to "None" and that you have no rows selected as heading rows in the tables after the first. |
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how do you append one table to another in Word 2003
The best workaround I've found for this is to remove the return of course.
Then hold down the ALT key as you use the mouse to drag the column borders into alignment. The alt key removes the snap-to feature. "Ed" wrote: Wrapping was off (by chance) and I had turned off heading rows all around, suspecting that it might be a problem. So, there is a problem and a workaround. But, my wife tells me that she's moving to 2003, so I might be back in the market for a more general fix. ... ;-) Ed "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have experienced this, too, so I can attest that you're not making it up. Just to be on the safe side, though, make absolutely sure that wrapping on all the tables is set to "None" and that you have no rows selected as heading rows in the tables after the first. |
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