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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one
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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete.
Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is involved. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one table? |
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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
Hi Suzanne
Thanks for the input. As it turns out, after I posted the question I trolled around in this site and found a number of posts and replies on the same question. I was able to delete the paragraph mark by it didn't join the tables - no matter what I tried, and after I made sure there was no word wrapping and removed the heading rows (no nesting involved). So I ended up adding rows to the first table and just cutting/pasting the contents from the second table into them. It was a pain to reformat row sizes, but not as much of a pain as racking my head on the challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete. Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is involved. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one table? |
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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
I've had this happen, too, in a document I created myself, with tables I
created myself--could not find anything wrong with them but could not get them to join. In your case, I missed the fact that you had a page break. Did you check the first row of the second table to see if it was formatted "Page break before"? This won't actually split the table (the rows on the second page will be part of the same table), but it will cause that part of the table to be on a new page. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne Thanks for the input. As it turns out, after I posted the question I trolled around in this site and found a number of posts and replies on the same question. I was able to delete the paragraph mark by it didn't join the tables - no matter what I tried, and after I made sure there was no word wrapping and removed the heading rows (no nesting involved). So I ended up adding rows to the first table and just cutting/pasting the contents from the second table into them. It was a pain to reformat row sizes, but not as much of a pain as racking my head on the challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete. Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is involved. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one table? |
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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
Suzanne - I think I figured out the problem. 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I've had this happen, too, in a document I created myself, with tables I created myself--could not find anything wrong with them but could not get them to join. In your case, I missed the fact that you had a page break. Did you check the first row of the second table to see if it was formatted "Page break before"? This won't actually split the table (the rows on the second page will be part of the same table), but it will cause that part of the table to be on a new page. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne Thanks for the input. As it turns out, after I posted the question I trolled around in this site and found a number of posts and replies on the same question. I was able to delete the paragraph mark by it didn't join the tables - no matter what I tried, and after I made sure there was no word wrapping and removed the heading rows (no nesting involved). So I ended up adding rows to the first table and just cutting/pasting the contents from the second table into them. It was a pain to reformat row sizes, but not as much of a pain as racking my head on the challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete. Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is involved. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one table? |
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Merging two tables where there is a page break.
I ordinarily have no trouble doing exactly this in Word 2003. I routinely
split long tables to improve performance, then rejoin them before I save the document. The only times I've had problems I've concluded there must be some corruption in the table. This can be a problem if there are merged cells. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... Suzanne - I think I figured out the problem. 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. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I've had this happen, too, in a document I created myself, with tables I created myself--could not find anything wrong with them but could not get them to join. In your case, I missed the fact that you had a page break. Did you check the first row of the second table to see if it was formatted "Page break before"? This won't actually split the table (the rows on the second page will be part of the same table), but it will cause that part of the table to be on a new page. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne Thanks for the input. As it turns out, after I posted the question I trolled around in this site and found a number of posts and replies on the same question. I was able to delete the paragraph mark by it didn't join the tables - no matter what I tried, and after I made sure there was no word wrapping and removed the heading rows (no nesting involved). So I ended up adding rows to the first table and just cutting/pasting the contents from the second table into them. It was a pain to reformat row sizes, but not as much of a pain as racking my head on the challenge. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinarily, you select the paragraph mark (or whatever) and press Delete. Sometimes this deletes the space but doesn't join the tables. This can happen when one or more of the tables is wrapped, when rows in the second table have been marked as heading rows, and possibly when nesting is involved. -- 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. "Gail" wrote in message ... How do I delete the space between two tables so that Word sees them as one table? |
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