Combine separate tables Indesign

[armedia]

Hi. I have a Word file with a heap of separate tables that should be one continuous table. Does anyone know how to combine them in Word or in Indesign so that when I import the text it is one flowing table?

At present there are paragraph spaces between each 5 rows of table. Very frustrating when you want to change the width of every column!

thank you.

[Jam]

This sounds like a nightmare - I dont think it is possible to link two tables in word. You can copy one table, click in to the last cell (bottom right) press tab and then paste in the copied table to attach it.

Alternatively, copy and paste straight from word and into InDesign, select everything and convert to text to table.

Either way its a bit fiddly - my first suggestion might be better as you can place the word document into InDesign as it will also copy across some of the formatting

[hewligan]

The other alternative is to leave them as seperate tables but remove the spacing. First set the paragraph space before and space after to 0, and then for each table open its table properties, and set the space before and after there to 0 also.

Probably, though, I'd go with Jam's second suggestion. But then I don't trust word enough to let it import any formatting into my documents :)

[armedia]

Thanks for your help Jam and Hewligan. Had to do the manual version, the old cut and paste.

I really like tables, I really do, but I just wish that Adobe had asked us what we needed before writing the software. How about styled tables for a start.

[hewligan]

Hey, they only just gave us object styles - give them a chance :)

There are extensions for table styles, though:

http://www.teacupsoftware.com/news/8.22.05.html

[armedia]

Thanks. I was reading about the Teacup mob yesterday. Will be a good think come annual report season.