Joining tables

[Jackie Smith]

I have a table in word which I would like to join to another table copied and
pasted from excel. I followed the advice previously given to Dave Neve on
8/25/2005. My brain hurts, have tried all suggested but to no avail. Heavy
black line between tables and they don't join. Have had everyone in my
company trying to do it. It won't work. Perhaps MS could incorporate
something on the dropdown from Tools (similar to Split table) which would
join a table. Please help.

Many thanks

Jackie

To connect two tables, delete the paragraph mark that separates them.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Make sure that neither of the tables is wrapped and that the top row of the
second table is not formatted as a heading row.

 

[Jackie Smith]

Sorry but I couldn't get it to work. I copied part of an Excel spreadsheet
(no header) and pasted it under a table in Word. For the life of me I cannot
join the two tables and have tried all that has been suggested. The only way
around for me is to copy to Word table into Excel, this joins easily, I can
sort and whatever, then copy and paste back into Word. Defeated. Thanks
anyway.

 

[Gail]

Jackie - I am trying to do the same thing.
Did you ever come up with another solution other than taking the table Excel?
The tables I want to join have kind lots of formatting...I don't want to redo.
(My head is hurting too - I completely relate to your frustration)

 

[Gail]

I think I figured out the problem.
(As I'm sure you figured out, that black line just indicates you have two
different tables sitting right next to each other -- not functionally sharing
a cell border, but visually sharing it).
I bet you are a Word 2003 user. I am, and cannot join/merge/append the tables.
Users of Word 2002 can delete the paragraph mark and append one table to
another with a simple press of the "Delete" key. I found someone to test this
with the same document.
So somehow Word 2003 took that capability away - at least the user-friendly
capability. Perhaps someone more savy than I with Word can figure out a
work-around, but it is not built into the program's functionality as far as I
can figure.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

With tables pasted from Excel, all bets are off. Are you sure you pasted as
plain text and not as an object?