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Old 09-12-2025, 09:34 AM
chrisjj chrisjj is offline Word 2002 - how to select a row that has its first cell in a vertical merge? Windows 7 64bit Word 2002 - how to select a row that has its first cell in a vertical merge? Office 97-2003
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E.g. row #4 here:





Hoping for better than:

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Old 09-12-2025, 03:15 PM
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Select with vba? With keyboard commands?
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Old 09-12-2025, 03:41 PM
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Keyboard preferred. But anything accepted. Thanks.
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Old 09-13-2025, 05:23 AM
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Solution found. Double-click here:



Then Paste gives a surprise:



The best workaround I find is select row below (provided one exists) and Paste:



which sadly is no better at preserving merge than Insert Rows Below.
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Old 09-16-2025, 01:26 PM
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By the way, there is a substantial difference between Word 2002 and Word 2003.
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Thanks. None in the above behaviour, though.
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