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Duplicating table cells and formatting in Word 2007

Anonymous
2010-07-12T18:55:58+00:00

I'm trying to duplicate several cells in a table and insert the duplicates below one another.  I want to keep the formatting and the content.  Selecting and Inserting Below just adds empty cells.  Copying and Pasting strips the cell and row formatting out (so I have to resize).  I tried saving the selection as a Quick Table and inserting it, but that places a separate table elsewhere on the page, and I can't figure out how to join the two tables.

Is there a way to select the cells and paste, while keeping the cells parameters intact?  Or is there a way to join two tables?  I can't seem to find a solution to that one either.  It has been suggested to merely remove any paragraph marks or carriage returns between the tables, but that hasn't worked so far.  You can split a table.  Can you join them?

Thanks in advance...

ChrisInLA

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  1. Stefan Blom 339K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-07-12T19:32:10+00:00

    Contents and formatting should be preserved when copying if you make sure to select full rows, that is, if you include the end of row marks, before copying.

    It is correct that you can merge tables by deleting the paragraph marks between them. For this to work reliably, you will have to set text wrap to "None" (as opposed to "Around") in the Table Properties dialog box.

    Both of these tasks will be easier if you show nonprinting marks; in particular, you want paragraph marks (¶) and end of row marks to be visible. Just press Ctrl+Shift+8 (acts as a toggle).

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    "ChrisInLA" <=?utf-8?B?Q2hyaXNJbkxB?=> wrote in message news:ee5d09e5-33f2-4838-91ba-024668d16baf...

    I'm trying to duplicate several cells in a table and insert the duplicates below one another.  I want to keep the formatting and the content.  Selecting and Inserting Below just adds empty cells.  Copying and Pasting strips the cell and row formatting out (so I have to resize).  I tried saving the selection as a Quick Table and inserting it, but that places a separate table elsewhere on the page, and I can't figure out how to join the two tables.

    Is there a way to select the cells and paste, while keeping the cells parameters intact?  Or is there a way to join two tables?  I can't seem to find a solution to that one either.  It has been suggested to merely remove any paragraph marks or carriage returns between the tables, but that hasn't worked so far.  You can split a table.  Can you join them?

    Thanks in advance...

    ChrisInLA

    Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-12T20:17:07+00:00

    Thanks!  I discovered that Cut and Paste with the end row marks selected only copies the content and formatting, while CTRL-dragging also re-sizes the cell parameters, which is what I was after.

    I'll try the merge table procedure as well.  Thank you for the solutions!

    ChrisInLA

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-09-24T17:54:04+00:00

    It is correct that you can merge tables by deleting the paragraph marks between them. For this to work reliably, you will have to set text wrap to "None" (as opposed to "Around") in the Table Properties dialog box.

    Both of these tasks will be easier if you show nonprinting marks; in particular, you want paragraph marks (¶) and end of row marks to be visible. Just press Ctrl+Shift+8 (acts as a toggle).

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    Stefan Blom

    Microsoft Word MVP

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    My single table has split itself into two separate tables and I can't get them to merge.  The first section doesn't allow selection of "None" for text wrap - it's greyed out.  The table has rotated text in the first column.  It seemed to split into two tables when other text caused it to break across two pages.

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