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DonD - 13 Jun 2006 14:39 GMT

I have a couple rows in my table that seem to be totally normal until I
select a table column. Then I get 2 side-by-side cells selected with the
otherwise single table column. Are these 2 cells linked? I don't know why
it's doing this. I can no longer copy and paste a column. I tried cutting and
pasteing the row into a new row, but it still does it. It there anyway to fix
this?

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Stefan Blom - 14 Jun 2006 11:18 GMT

The two cells have been merged (Table | Merge Cells). Place the cursor
inside them and try the Split Cell command on the Table menu.

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> I have a couple rows in my table that seem to be totally normal until I
> select a table column. Then I get 2 side-by-side cells selected with the
> otherwise single table column. Are these 2 cells linked? I don't know why
> it's doing this. I can no longer copy and paste a column. I tried cutting and
> pasteing the row into a new row, but it still does it. It there anyway to fix
> this?

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DonD - 14 Jun 2006 17:57 GMT

Yes, I can split the merged cell but the row will have too many columns and
once again requires a rewrite or major cell resizing. The most bazaar thing
is the cell had 3 lines of text, with a return after the first 2 lines of
text. Somehow these returns changed the single cell into a 3 row merged cell.
The other bazaar thing is the fact you can’t identify which cell is merged in
word. I ended up copying and pasting a row from the word table into excel to
see what cell was merged. The only real problem I can see is a merged cell is
not. If it was merged like “Word Perfect” it would be truly one cell. The
“Word Perfect” table capabilities in the mid ’90 was way ahead of Word 2003.
10 years behind. Pretty sad.

> The two cells have been merged (Table | Merge Cells). Place the cursor
> inside them and try the Split Cell command on the Table menu.
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> anyway to fix
> > this?

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Stefan Blom - 15 Jun 2006 08:40 GMT

I have never seen the behavior you're describing. Does this happen
with a particular document or with a set of documents created from the
same template? I suppose it could be a corrupt document or template.
See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/CorruptDoc.htm.

See also the replies posted to your other (similar) question in
microsoft.public.word.tables. Please avoid multi-posting (or at least
indicate that you've asked the same question in another newsgroup,
too).

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> Yes, I can split the merged cell but the row will have too many columns and
> once again requires a rewrite or major cell resizing. The most bazaar thing
> is the cell had 3 lines of text, with a return after the first 2 lines of
> text. Somehow these returns changed the single cell into a 3 row merged cell.
> The other bazaar thing is the fact you can't identify which cell is

merged in

> word. I ended up copying and pasting a row from the word table into excel to
> see what cell was merged. The only real problem I can see is a merged cell is
> not. If it was merged like "Word Perfect" it would be truly one

cell. The

> "Word Perfect" table capabilities in the mid '90 was way ahead of

Word 2003.

> 10 years behind. Pretty sad.
>
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> > anyway to fix
> > > this?

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