To work with data in spreadsheets today, Microsoft Office Excel is most often used. However, tables are often used not only for storing and processing large amounts of information, but they are also placed in ordinary text documents. To work with files of this kind, the Microsoft Office Word word processor is used more often than other programs. Both applications provide the ability to merge adjacent table cells.
Necessary
- - Microsoft Office Word application;
- - Microsoft Office Excel.
Instructions
Step 1
In Microsoft Office Word, open the required document, select the table cells that you want to connect. At the same time, Word will add two additional tabs to the menu of the program, united by the common heading "Working with Tables" - they appear whenever the user places the cursor in an existing table.
Step 2
Go to the one of the additional tabs called "Layout". In the group of commands "Combine" click on the button with the name, which is quite obvious for this operation, "Combine cells". There is a duplicate of this command in the context menu, which can be invoked by right-clicking on the selected cells.
Step 3
In the same group of Combine commands on the Layout tab, find the Split Cells button. Despite its name, it can be used as a more advanced tool for combining table cells. For example, after selecting a group of cells of four adjacent rows and the same number of columns, click on this button, and you will be able to create the required number of cells from this group. In the dialog that appears on the screen, specify the required number of rows and columns for the created union, and then click the OK button.
Step 4
In Microsoft Office Excel, after selecting the cells to be merged, open the drop-down list attached to the bottom right button in the Align command group on the Home tab.
Step 5
Select Merge By Rows if you want the cells to be joined horizontally only, and the line breaks are preserved. If you want to simply merge all the cells into one, select "Merge and Place in the Center" or "Merge Cells". However, when using any of these three commands, be careful - Excel will place only the contents of the top-left cell of the selected group in the merged cell. Therefore, this operation should be performed before filling the table as a whole or this group of cells.
