How to Merge Tables in Microsoft Word 2007
Merging tables in Microsoft Word 2007 allows you to consolidate information in your document and streamline your work. You can combine parts of tables or entire tables, merging before, after or within the destination table or a destination cell. Word 2007 has substantially the same table merging features as Word 2002 and Word 2003, but the ways of accessing some of these features have changed.
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Instructions
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Open the Word document. Decide which tables and which sections (if not the entire table) you want to merge.
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Select the relevant cells from the table from which you will be moving cells.
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Click the “Copy” function on the "Home" tab or press the “CTRL” and “C” keys simultaneously to copy the selected area.
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Set the cursor location to paste your merged cells. Add copied material to the top or bottom of the destination table by placing the cursor above or below the table, clicking on the arrow below the “Paste” icon on the “Home” tab and clicking “Paste by Appending Table.” To nest multiple rows and columns as a table within a single cell, select that cell and paste inside it. To merge the copied cells into the table in that position, rather than nesting them, click on the clipboard icon that appears to the lower right of the pasted cells, and select “Merge with Existing Table” from the resulting menu.
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Tips & Warnings
You can select parts of the table or the entire table in multiple ways. To select cells, move the mouse pointer to the left edge of a cell. When it becomes a black rightward pointer, click to select the cell, or click and hold down the mouse button and drag in any direction to select a block of multiple cells. Copy rows by moving your mouse pointer to the left of the table until a right-leaning mouse pointer appears. Click, hold down the mouse button, and drag to select multiple rows. Copy columns by placing the mouse pointer on the top border of a column; when it changes to a black downward pointer, click. Click and hold down the mouse button to drag across and select multiple columns. To select an entire table, move the mouse pointer to the top left of the table and click the four-way arrow icon that appears.
You can merge tables with different numbers of columns without changing the number of columns in each section of the table. However, you cannot use the “Paste by Appending Table” command to merge tables with different numbers of columns.
