Re: How do I join 2 tables

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:50:53 -0600

FWIW, I had an old document containing two tables with identical formatting
separated by some text. I deleted the text and could not get the tables to
join. Neither was floating; neither was nested. They were just very ordinary
(two-column, borderless) tables. I was on deadline and so just did what I
had to do to make the results work, but I'm still curious about what sort of
odd corruption was causing the problem. For some reason we're seeing a lot
more reports of that sort of thing in Word 2003. 

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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:25:01 -0800, "stacynagyvary" <stacyvary> wrote:
>
> >After splitting a table, I used to be able to unsplit it by deleting the
> >paragraph mark between the 2 tables.  Now that I have upgraded to Word
2003,
> >I can't join the two tables back up again.  When I try to delete the
> >paragraph that separates the two tables, it keeps it as two separate
tables.
> >I would like it to be able to joing the two tables again.
>
> When you delete the paragraph, do the tables move together but appear
> to have a heavier border between them, as if each is contributing a
> separate border? And moving the edges of the columns in one doesn't
> move them in the other?
>
> It's possible that one of the tables has been changed to floating
> (like a text box), which is easy to do accidentally. Put the cursor in
> each table in turn, go to Table > Table Properties, and make sure the
> text wrapping is set to None instead of Around.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP         FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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