Comments on: Word: Combine Two Tables

By: JeB

JeB — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:06:21 +0000

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.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:54:37 +0000

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!

By: anamca

anamca — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:38:17 +0000

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!

By: Petre

Petre — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:18:20 +0000

Great!!! thank you very much, it works!!!

By: ID

ID — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:40:51 +0000

Thanks a lot, got tired of cursing at word developers… )-D

By: SD

SD — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:33:28 +0000

Scratch that…it merged them by replacing cells not stacking the tables. grr

By: SD

SD — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:17:47 +0000

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.

By: Cel

Cel — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:52:44 +0000

I deleted the gap between the two tables, and they merged. I used Word 2007.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:55:00 +0000

it works, thank you very much

By: Nn_walters

Nn_walters — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:31:00 +0000

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.