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Old 01-06-2017, 07:08 AM
Paulvana Paulvana is offline Splitting Cells in a Very Large Table Windows 10 Splitting Cells in a Very Large Table Office 2016
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Does anyone know if there is a way to select all or specific cells (within a column) to split each cell into 2 rows (cells)? I have a very large table with a different number of cells (rows) in each column. The last column in the table currently contains 256 cells (rows) and I need to add a column that will be even larger (512) cells (rows) to the right. When I went from 128 to 256 rows I split each cell by hand after adding a new column to the right, but 512 is just too much to do individually. I've tried selecting the whole new column or groups of cells, but Word doesn't give the option on right-clicking of splitting cells. I've thought about simply creating a new table of 512 rows and placing it next to the first table but that creates other problems.



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Old 01-06-2017, 11:04 AM
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Use the LAYOUT tab then use the MERGE section of the tab to split cells/tables. When using that option, remember that you have to highlight the cell(s) in order to define the how you want the split in the subsequent menu.
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Old 01-06-2017, 11:55 AM
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Thanks for the response, but I tried that before and I tried it again after reading your response and it does not let me create any more rows than were merged.

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Old 01-06-2017, 01:41 PM
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The following macro will split all cells in the last column of first table in the document into two rows:

Code:
Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim r As Long, c As Long
With ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
  c = .Range.Columns.Count
  For r = .Rows.Count To 1 Step -1
    .Cell(r, c).Split 2, 1
  Next
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html
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Old 01-06-2017, 01:52 PM
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Thanks Paul. I'll give it a try.

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