How do you join two existing tables of like format?

[Lynn at Work]

I have to like tables in a Word doc and would like to join them.
There is a hard return between the tables.
How can I join the two tables?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Select and delete the hard return ¶ between the two tables.

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[Dorna Tucker]

I saw this posting and this is exactly what I need to do. However, when I
deleted the hard return between the 2 tables, it did not make it one table.
When selecting the first column in the table, it stops at the end of the last
row of the first table and does not go all the way down to the end of the
table. It seems although you deleted the hard return it is still two separate
tables. (I hope I'm making sense here.)

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I believe that it does make one table. Run a macro that contains the
command

MsgBox ActiveDocument.Tables.Count

and that will, if there were originally only two tables in the document,
return 1

Whether or not you can select all of a single column may depend on the
layout of the original tables.


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Hope this helps.

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[Dorna Tucker]

As I was waiting to get help with this issue, I continue to work on the
document. I copied the second table into a new document, deleted the second
table from the original document I was working on and then copied and Paste
by appending table back into the original document. By doing this I now have
one table which is working okay. I can select the entire column(s).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When this happens make sure that (a) no row in the lower table is marked as
a heading row and (b) neither of the tables is wrapped.

 

[RPJ]

I have been experiencing very similar problems joining two tables in Word
2003 and have seen postings elsewhere on the same subject.

Your suggestions about a header row and/or wrapped tables does not help me
I'm afraid.

Has anyone addressed this issue since your last posting?

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

RPJ was telling us:
RPJ nous racontait que :

I have been experiencing very similar problems joining two tables in
Word 2003 and have seen postings elsewhere on the same subject.

Your suggestions about a header row and/or wrapped tables does not
help me I'm afraid.

To make sure the two tables are joined, you may have to check that both
tables have the same numbers of columns, the same table width and that each
column is also the same width.
Sometimes, if one of the above is not true, the table do not join properly.

Finally, make sure that none of the table have text wrapped around them.

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[jen_writer]

I have discovered that if the tables are two different styles (e.g. normal
and table grid), they will remain separate tables even when I delete the
space between them. If I change them both to e.g. normal styles, then they
become one table.