It certainly can be done in Word 2003. I don't know what you are talking
about.

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"Gail" wrote in message
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In Word2002, users can join, merge, append two adjoining tables by simply
deleting the paragraph mark between them.
In Word2003 this cannot be done - at least using the normal "table
management" tools a regular Word table user has developed.
Please restore this capability to future versions of Word.

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