Hi Savid:
This is not easy, unless you have a copy of Word that contains VBA (and Word
2008 is a cut-down that doesn't have it...)
You can either use Excel formulas to concatenate the content of vertically
adjacent cells, or you can add a control column in Word.
To do this in Word:
1) Add a control column to one end of the rows or the other (best to add it
at the right hand end)
2) Add a special character that does not occur anywhere else in the table to
every second row (only need to do about five). The special character can be
anything you loike: I often use a % sign.
3) Paste that series down until you have a control character in every
second row of the entire table (copy/paste more and more until you can paste
a hundred rows at a time)
4) Convert the entire table to text (Table>Convert>Table to Text)
5) Use Find/Replace to turn all of the paragraph marks into spaces
6) Use Find/Replace to turn all the control characters into paragraph marks
7) Convert your text back into a table.
You will get a row ending only where each control character was, and you
have done the job.
If it's a massive table, get back and I will tell you how to do this in
Excel.
Hope this helps
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel
Is there a way to do this?
Here's how:
I have a table with each row filled with text, but I want to combine every 2
into one row.
Example: row 1 and 2 combine into a single row. So I suspect tht odd or even
number merge might work, or is there another trick?
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