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How do I combine tables?
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:38:16 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: Except that for some reason this sometimes doesn't work. I experienced this the other day. There was absolutely nothing between the two (identically formatted) tables; neither was floating, neither had a heading row. But they just wouldn't join. If the two tables have different Table Styles (or equivalently, different Table | AutoFormat settings), they won't join. But you did say "identically formatted", so that shouldn't be the issue. Strange... Bob S |
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Both tables were created generically using the Insert | Table button. My
default Table AutoFormat (style) is Table Normal. Although it shouldn't have made any difference, I checked that all the table columns were the same widths. Both tables had the same alignment, neither was wrapped; etc. The document is one that has been reused a lot, so some corruption is not beyond the bounds of probability. -- 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. "Bob S" wrote in message ... On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:38:16 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Except that for some reason this sometimes doesn't work. I experienced this the other day. There was absolutely nothing between the two (identically formatted) tables; neither was floating, neither had a heading row. But they just wouldn't join. If the two tables have different Table Styles (or equivalently, different Table | AutoFormat settings), they won't join. But you did say "identically formatted", so that shouldn't be the issue. Strange... Bob S |
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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? -- 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. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... 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. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. "Julian Turner" wrote in message ... 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. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "madredarlene" wrote in message ... |
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