searching for merged cells

[Carol]

am trying to sort a huge table and I get the
message "cannot sort a table containing merged cells".
how can i find the merged cells? - I've tried copying it
to xcel and trying there too, but I get the same error
message. thanks

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Carol,

"merged cells" would be where you've selected two or more
cells and made them into a single cell. Visually, you'd see
that a cell spans two or more rows (and/or columns).

If you're quite certain you don't have any of these, the
table structure might be damaged. Try seelcting the table
and doing Table/Convert to text. Then do Table/Convert to
table. (However, since Excel thinks there are merged cells,
there probably are...)

am trying to sort a huge table and I get the
message "cannot sort a table containing merged cells".
how can i find the merged cells? - I've tried copying it
to xcel and trying there too, but I get the same error
message.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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