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Word provides a powerful table editor that allows you to create and modify data in tabular format. If you are working with large tables, there may be times when you need to split a table in half. To do this, follow these steps:
The result is that Word inserts a Normal-formatted paragraph prior to the table row in which your insertion point was placed. The two resulting tables can now be treated independently.
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2015-11-16 14:20:32
Jennifer Thomas
I've seen a couple of the proposed methods set the table wrap properties to Around (which causes a lot of weird issues like not being able to delete the empty paragraph mark between tables), so I recommend you always double-check the page layout for tables after you split them.
2015-11-15 18:22:57
Liz
Another shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + Enter
2015-11-15 13:49:51
Fergus Semler
I've used the 2 step method of...
1. Insert page break via CTRL-Enter
2. Backspace to delete the page break
2015-11-14 04:51:06
When splitting a table Alt+a+t does the same thing as above, and is quicker. - I've been doing this for years now.
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