Formatting: Putting Tables into Columns

[pdragon]

So I want to have two different tables side-by-side in a word document
I've adjusted the table borders so that each table takes up much les
than half of a page (within the borders). When I select the two table
and try to put them into columns it splits the individual tables t
spread across two columns. (see picture)

[image
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i451/PDsTreasure/wordproblem.jpg]

Clearly that is not what I want; I want the tables to appea
side-by-side and not one one top of the other.

I should mention that I have previously had this work, though I don'
know what's happened that it no longer does it.
Previously I had made two tables (one following the other in the wor
document), adjusted the table size so that they took up less than hal
the page, selected both tables and simply selected columns (two). As fa
as I'm aware I've done everything exactly the same; though this time i
is in a much more formatted (overall) document with page numbers,
table of contents, etc.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Without looking at your image, my guess was that you somehow managed to get
a section break (Continuous) between the two tables as well as before and
after, so each table was being balanced across the columns, but that does
not appear to be the case (since the top purple row on the right appears to
slightly overlap the bottom green row on the left). What happens if you
select the green rows from the right-hand side and drag them down below the
green rows on the left side, deleting any emtpy paragraph that may appear
between them?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org