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Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Tim — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:55:02 -0000

it works, thank you very much

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Nn_walters — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:31:32 -0000

No. It doesn't. In Word 2007 the text wrapping setting is already set to 'None'. This does not work. The only way to do this is to copy the table (make sure to only select the table) that you want to join to your existing table. Place the cursor to the right of the last row of the last column (bottom right corner of the table) of the TABLE you want to join it to (your existing table). Then paste. You will have to do some minor adjusting but this is the only I've found that works.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Nn_walters — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:29:36 -0000

No. It doesn't. In Word 2007 the text wrapping setting is already set to 'None'. This does not work. The only way to do this is to copy the table (make sure to only select the table) that you want to join to your existing table. Place the cursor to the right of the last row of the last column (bottom right corner of the table) of the cell you want to join it to. Then paste. You will have to do some minor adjusting but this is the only I've found that works.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Esprit64 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:02:53 -0000

I had one table that became corrupted mid-table. Every time that I tried to remove the corrupted information, the table would not allow me to save it, the document closed, re-opened, and I was back to square #1.

The first thing I did was to make a page break above and below the corrupted table part. I was then able to remove the corrupted information to another blank document to deal with its separate issues in that document. After I cleaned up that info in the separate document, I returned it clean to my original table.

Back to the original table, it now would not combine. I once again split it by page break into two separate tables. For each table part, I chose the table part, I went to Table Auto Format and chose "Table Theme." I was then able to combine the two tables. After the tables were combined, sorted, I went back to BORDERS/SHADING, and restored my original settings.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Wers64 — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:26:25 -0000

I just tried deleting the space between two equal-column tables. Did not work. Afterwards, i selected the first table, used "Change to text" option with tab delimiters. Did the same with the second table. Then i noticed that the paragraph spacing between table one and two was different. fixed it an the selected all text (contents from table one and two) and "Inserted" a Table, with option "Table". Finally i got what i needed ! Terrible for Word 2007 ! Word 2003 was so easy!

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Cbzee2 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:49:31 -0000

Thank you, it worked for me.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Len_cop — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:54:14 -0000

If erasing the paragraph marks do not work (like mine) then create a new row above the first row of the paragraph mark (or space between the two tables). Select the entire first row of table 2 (which is blank) and the space (or paragraph mark) then delete them both.

Super frustrated with new hot asses software that doesn't do the basics....

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Michael Daly — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:14:04 -0000

I couldn't get this method to work with my Word 2003. I couldn't successfully delete a paragraph mark. But when I copied and pasted the rows of each table into a new, blank document, I was able to get the two tables to become one table in the new document. Then I copied the new combined table and pasted it in place of the messed-up table in the original document.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Mohitaithani5683 2008 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:40:04 -0000

thank you
it helped!

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

zaidshaker — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:47:15 -0000

Very nice

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

basavarajNC — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:04:00 -0000

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

billstill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:45:50 -0000

Great! This is the first thing that has worked, and I use Word 2007.
Two enhancements:
1. Frequently when these tables need combining, the previous author has manually inserted a new Table Header Row at the top of every page. You will need to manually highlight that row and then delete it, then click on "Repeat Header Rows".
2. Almost always, even after you have eliminated the manual Page Breaks, still a Return symbol will persist between the tables you are trying to combine. You can't eliminate that by hitting the Backspace key, you have hit the Delete key.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

sarita — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:57:18 -0000

Thank you!! It helped a lot :-)

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

aman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:21:04 -0000

thanks

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

Jin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:55:42 -0000

yes they do work, i tried those in word 2007 and worked fine, this word version is so weird, sometimes you can even merge table just by deleting the space between them

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

dula — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:27:21 -0000

this is useful stuff guys.. thank you

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

jeff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:16:25 -0000

you press control delete.

Re: Word: Combine Two Tables

F. Ehrhardt — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:04:20 -0000

Thanks for the suggestions, but they DO NOT WORK in Word 07.