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Splitting Cell in a Table in Word 2002

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by christy_3303

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Does anyone know how to split a cell (that has text) into two cells so that the text is split. I have two paragraphs within a cell. I want to split the cell so that each paragraph is in a separate row. What do I have to do to do this without cut and pasting the text? thanks for any input.

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by dklippert

Right click a Toolbar and bring up the Tables and Borders Toolbar.(Or choose View>Toolbars, or click on the icon on the Standard toolbar that has a pencil on a grid)
Make sure the pencil icon (Draw Table)on the far right is selected.
Draw a line between the two paragraphs.

by dklippert

And the reason this did not work?
Word 2000 and 2002 both have this ability to split cells wherever it's needed.

by dklippert

Perhaps I wasn't clear that the line that is drawn, is a new cell border. The pencil creates new rows or columns. If you draw it across the Enter mark (?) between the two paragraphs, you create two rows. By the same token, the eraser will remove borders and merge cells,

by timwalsh

While you can split cells (Table Menu | Split Cells), you can only specify the number of rows and columns to split the cell into. You cannot specify where in the cell the split will occur. You can change the size of the new csplit cells after the split occurs.

Any data in the cell will be placed in the first cell. If you wish to split the data, you must do so manually (cut and paste).

Sorry.

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