Word: Combine Two Tables
Contributed by MickeyMouse 
Tagged: Windows In Microsoft Word, combining two tables (or appending one to another) can be tricky. Here is how to make the combination of tables as easy as possible.
Combining tables in Word is supposed to be easy. You should be able to put one table against another and the two combine. However, frequently this does not work and you get something that looks like this:
To combine these tables, double-click the little cross-in-a-box for the table. This will open up the properties for that table. Click the Table tab and change Text Wrapping to None. Then click OK and repeat this for the other table.
After the text wrapping is changed on both tables, they will combine if they are close to each other. Use the mouse to adjust the lines to make the sections of the table appear the same. One table should now be appending to another and the tables are indeed combined into one…
(If you still have problems combining the two, hit CTRL-SHIFT-8 to display mark-up. Delete any paragraph symbols that may be interferring with the combination of the table. Repeat the CTRL-SHIFT-8 to hide the mark up again once done.)
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F. Ehrhardt said on October 22, 2008
Thanks for the suggestions, but they DO NOT WORK in Word 07.
jeff said on November 17, 2008
you press control delete.
dula said on November 24, 2008
this is useful stuff guys.. thank you
Jin said on March 3, 2009
yes they do work, i tried those in word 2007 and worked fine, this word version is so weird, sometimes you can even merge table just by deleting the space between them
aman said on March 23, 2009
thanks
sarita said on June 17, 2009
Thank you!! It helped a lot :-)
Anonymous said on September 22, 2009
Great! This is the first thing that has worked, and I use Word 2007.
Two enhancements:
1. Frequently when these tables need combining, the previous author has manually inserted a new Table Header Row at the top of every page. You will need to manually highlight that row and then delete it, then click on “Repeat Header Rows”.
2. Almost always, even after you have eliminated the manual Page Breaks, still a Return symbol will persist between the tables you are trying to combine. You can’t eliminate that by hitting the Backspace key, you have hit the Delete key.
Anonymous said on December 22, 2009
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP
Anonymous said on February 22, 2010
Very nice
Mohitaithani5683 2008 said on July 16, 2010
thank you
it helped!
Michael Daly said on July 22, 2010
I couldn’t get this method to work with my Word 2003. I couldn’t successfully delete a paragraph mark. But when I copied and pasted the rows of each table into a new, blank document, I was able to get the two tables to become one table in the new document. Then I copied the new combined table and pasted it in place of the messed-up table in the original document.
Len_cop said on September 29, 2010
If erasing the paragraph marks do not work (like mine) then create a new row above the first row of the paragraph mark (or space between the two tables). Select the entire first row of table 2 (which is blank) and the space (or paragraph mark) then delete them both.
Super frustrated with new hot asses software that doesn’t do the basics….
Cbzee2 said on March 22, 2011
Thank you, it worked for me.
Wers64 said on May 3, 2011
I just tried deleting the space between two equal-column tables. Did not work. Afterwards, i selected the first table, used “Change to text” option with tab delimiters. Did the same with the second table. Then i noticed that the paragraph spacing between table one and two was different. fixed it an the selected all text (contents from table one and two) and “Inserted” a Table, with option “Table”. Finally i got what i needed ! Terrible for Word 2007 ! Word 2003 was so easy!
Esprit64 said on June 11, 2011
I had one table that became corrupted mid-table. Every time that I tried to remove the corrupted information, the table would not allow me to save it, the document closed, re-opened, and I was back to square #1.
The first thing I did was to make a page break above and below the corrupted table part. I was then able to remove the corrupted information to another blank document to deal with its separate issues in that document. After I cleaned up that info in the separate document, I returned it clean to my original table.
Back to the original table, it now would not combine. I once again split it by page break into two separate tables. For each table part, I chose the table part, I went to Table Auto Format and chose “Table Theme.” I was then able to combine the two tables. After the tables were combined, sorted, I went back to BORDERS/SHADING, and restored my original settings.
Nn_walters said on June 30, 2011
No. It doesn’t. In Word 2007 the text wrapping setting is already set to ‘None’. This does not work. The only way to do this is to copy the table (make sure to only select the table) that you want to join to your existing table. Place the cursor to the right of the last row of the last column (bottom right corner of the table) of the cell you want to join it to. Then paste. You will have to do some minor adjusting but this is the only I’ve found that works.
Nn_walters said on June 30, 2011
No. It doesn’t. In Word 2007 the text wrapping setting is already set to ‘None’. This does not work. The only way to do this is to copy the table (make sure to only select the table) that you want to join to your existing table. Place the cursor to the right of the last row of the last column (bottom right corner of the table) of the TABLE you want to join it to (your existing table). Then paste. You will have to do some minor adjusting but this is the only I’ve found that works.
Tim said on August 19, 2011
it works, thank you very much
Cel said on October 5, 2011
I deleted the gap between the two tables, and they merged. I used Word 2007.
SD said on October 30, 2011
JUST figured this out for Windows for Mac 2011: Just select the tables you want merged and right click and select “Mail Merge” from the drop down menu. (Right clicking on a mac is ‘control’ + click. The shortcut is command + V when the tables are selected. You’re welcome.
SD said on October 30, 2011
Scratch that…it merged them by replacing cells not stacking the tables. grr
ID said on November 8, 2011
Thanks a lot, got tired of cursing at word developers… )-D
Petre said on January 5, 2012
Great!!! thank you very much, it works!!!
anamca said on January 19, 2012
Nothing suggested here, or several other forums, worked for me.
I sorted my split table by copying first one half, then the other into Excel, with no row between, as I wanted them, then selecting the lot, copying and pasting back into Word, which then needed only minor adjustment of column widths, but at least there was only one lot!
JP said on January 23, 2012
Very irritating! You used to simply put the two tables together then double-click between the two tables that you would put as close to each other as possible and voila, they attached!
Now, it is utterly impossible–at least with the complex table I created and am trying to use again with variations to it. Extraordinarily annoying as well as taking HOURS to redo!
Thanks for the pathetic upgrade!
JeB said on January 27, 2012
This was just the answer I needed. The form had been created by someone else but I needed to adapt it and was experience difficulty until I followed these instructions to merge the tables.
Many thanks.