Is at least one of the tables wrapped? For each table, on the
Table tab of the Table > Table Properties dialog box, make sure
"Text wrap" is set to "None", and click OK. Can you merge the
tables now?

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Stefan Blom
> Greetings and TIA for your help,
> I have a Word doc with two tables seperated by 1 line. There is a return character at the beginning of the line. For some reason
this character does not respond to being deleted and hence will
not allow the two tables to merge.
> Any suggestions?