Is there a way to "join" tables in Word 2003?

[Loretta]

I have a form that I used OCR on first...now I need to make a few seperate
small tables (same size) ONE table...does anyone know if that possible?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In general, removing any empty paragraphs between the tables should suffice.
Make sure the tables are not wrapped (wrapping is set to None).

 

[Julian Turner]

I have found that this does not work in Word XP (so I assume 2003).

After Word 97 or 2000, tables now seem to be treated as separate floating
objects, and so do not form part of the normal document flow as they did in
Word 97. This means that removing paragraphs does not work, and it feels
like a retrograde development. Is there any way of adjusting Word XP/2003 to
stop tables being treaded like floating elements, and go back to the more
intuitive Word 97 approach.

Also, converting tables from XP to 97 is a disaster, as they are all
inserted in Frames.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Tables should not be wrapped (and therefore should not be converted to
framed tables in Word 97) unless the user has so specified. But (a) it's all
too easy to nudge a table the least bit (using the table handle) in Print
Layout view, thereby making it wrapped (working in Normal view is therefore
safer), and (b) tables imported from the Web are an entirely different
animal.

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Loretta,

OCR programs create weird documents, too.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if they create floating tables.

You should be able to turn them into "inline" tables with the macro below.
They will likely move around though, so you may need to do a bit of editing
to make the document look nice again.

Dim myTable As Table
For Each myTable In ActiveDocument.Tables
myTable.Rows.WrapAroundText = False
Next myTable

(See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm for help on
macros)

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Kind writer/user/programmer]

.....means the document text wraps around the table, not that the text in the
cell wraps? Oh boy...I hope they bring the ? back (what's this)...