Proper Steps To Merge & Split Cells In Microsoft Word 2010

Microsoft Word allows the merging of two or more cells to create one large cell. You will frequently need to merge columns of the top row to create the title of the table. You can merge cells either row-wise or column-wise, rather you cannot merge cells diagonally. This chapter will teach you how to merge multiple rows or columns.

Merging Cells
The following steps will help you merge table cells in a Word document.
Step 1: Bring your mouse pointer position inside the first cell that you want to merge. Now press the Shift key and click the cells around the cell which you want to merge into the first cell. This will highlight the cells which you click and they will be ready to be merged.

Step 2: Now click the Layout tab and then click the Merge Cells button which will merge all the selected cells.

After merging the cells, all the content of the cells will be scrambled which you can fix later as you like. For example, you can convert the merged cells text into title or some other description. For example, let us have center-aligned and bigger font text as follows on top of the table.

Split a Table
Microsoft Word allows splitting a table into multiple tables but a single operation will always divide a table into two tables. This chapter will teach you how to split a table into two smaller tables.

Steps To Split A Table
Following are the simple steps to split a table into two tables in a Word document.
Step 1: Bring your mouse pointer position anywhere in the row that should appear as the first row of the new table.

Step 2: Now click the Layout tab and then click the Split Table button which will split the table into two tables and the selected row will become the first row of the lower table.

After splitting the table into two tables, you can further divide it into two parts and you can continue dividing the Word tables as long as a table has more than one row.

Split Cells Microsoft Word allows splitting a cell into multiple cells. We will understand how to split a cell into multiple smaller sub-cells.

Steps To Split a Cell
The following steps will help you split a cell into two sub-cells of a table available in word document.
Step 1: Bring your mouse pointer position inside the cell that has to be divided into multiple cells.

Step 2: Now click the Layout tab and then click the Split Cells button; this will display a dialog box asking for the number of rows and columns to be created from the selected cell.

Step 3: Select the desired number of rows and columns that have to go into the resultant cell and finally click the OK button to apply the result.

You can divide a cell into multiple cells either row-wise or column-wise or both.