Split a Table - Microsoft Word 2010 And Split Table Cells - Microsoft Word 2010

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Split a Table - Microsoft Word 2010

Sometime there will be a situation when you would like to split an existing table into two or more tables. Microsoft Word allows splitting a table into multiple tables but a single operation will always divide a table into two tables. This chapter will teach you how to split a table into two smaller tables.

Split a Table:

Following are the simple steps to split a table into two tables in a word document.

Step (1): Bring your mouse pointer position anywhere in the row that should appear as the first row of the new table.

Step (2): Now click the Layout tab and then click Split Table Button which will split the table into two tables and selected row will become the first row of the lower table.

After splitting the table into two tables, you can further divide it into two parts and you can continue dividing word tables as long as a table has more than one number of rows.

Split Table Cells - Microsoft Word 2010

Previous chapter taught us how to divide a table into multiple tables. Sometime you will need to split a table cell into two or more sub-cells. Microsoft Word allows splitting a cell into multiple cells. This chapter will teach you how to split a cell into multiple smaller sub-cells.

Split a Cell:

Following are the simple steps to split a cell into two sub-cells of a table available in word document.

Step (1): Bring your mouse pointer position inside a cell that you want to divide into multiple cells.

Step (2): Now click the Layout tab and then click Split Cells Button which will display a dialog box asking for number of rows and columns to be created from the selected cell.

Step (3): Select the desired number of rows and columns which you would like to have in resultant cell and finally click OK button to apply the result.

You can divide a cell into multiple cells either row-wise or column-wise or both.