B,
Are you sure, everything works allright here in Word 2003.
The row is switched, if you keep pressing the combination it moves the row
as you describe. Maybe you hit it to hard or there is something wrong with
your keys.
Luc
> With Word 97 I could move switch rows 1 and 2 in a table by placing
> the cursor in any cell of row 2 and pressing alt-shift-up.
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> Bruce