How do you merge two tables that were previously split?

[Suzanne]

I have a rather long document in which I had to split some tables. Now I
have revised and need to re-merge the parts of the table. How do I do that?
I have searched "help" and have only found how to merge cells - which doesn't
work for this. Thanks.

 

[Lene Fredborg]

When you split a table, Word inserts an empty paragraph formatted with the
Normal style between the tables. You only need to delete the empty paragraph
in order to join the tables (press Ctrl+Shift+8 or click the ¶ icon in the
Standard toolbar so that you can see the paragraphs marks).

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Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
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[Tom Conrad]

Suzanne,

I would like to add the following caution.

Deleting the paragraph mark between a split table, does re-merge the table.
However, the overall table properties can cause some bizarre split/merger
results.
This technique works best when both tables have identical properties,
including column widths. I know that merging tables with unlike properties
causes problems, but I am uncertain which properties become dominant during
the merge.

- If automatically resize to fit contents is set, then splitting a table can
cause the overall table and column widths to auto adjust in one or both
tables. re-merging the two tables could result in columnar mis-alignment.
Similar problems can result when the Autofit to windows option is set.