Merging and un-merging Tables (not talking about cells in a table).

Question

Hello,
New to Mac-world and iWork 09. If I've two separate tables on a sheet and wanted to merge these two tables, also, if I've a table and would want to separate it into two or three etc. tables, can anyone help me doing this step by step, please?
Thanks in-advance.

Answer 1

D,
Here's a step-by-step.
*Merging 2 tables.*
Here we shall assume for simplicity that there are no Footer Rows to deal with, at least not in the table that is going away.
First, make room in your receiving table, the one that you are going to end up with. (This isn't mandatory, but it helps with the visualization of what you will have when you are done.) To expand a table, click once inside it to activate it and then you will see three large dimpled gray handles; one in the lower right hand corner can be dragged to add both columns and rows at once, one at the lower left corner can be dragged to add rows and one in the upper right corner to add columns.
Now you have room to add your second table to your first.
Moving your second table's content into the first table is a four-step process.
1. Select all the cells in the second table that you wish to move.
2. Edit > Mark for Move
3. Select the cell in the first table where you want the upper left cell of the second table to go.
4. Edit > Move
Now you can clean up by deleting whatever is left of the second table that you didn't need to move.
*Separating one table into two or more tables.*
Lots of ways to do this, but here's my favorite.
1. In the Sheets Pane, click on the name of the table that you wish to split.
2. Edit > Copy , Edit > Paste , Select all cells in the new table, Delete them to clear the table.
Now you have a new table the same size as your original. Make as many copies of this new blank table as you are going to need. This would be a good time to rename the new tables in the Sheets Pane. Again, it's not mandatory that the new tables be the same size as the original, but that's a convenient place to begin.
3. Select a block of cells in the original table that you wish to split off.
4. Edit > Mark for Move
5. Select cell A1 in a blank table.
6. Edit > Move.
Repeat steps 3 to 6 as many times as needed.
Now you need to clean up the blank rows and columns, both in your decimated original table and in your oversized new tables. The easiest way if you don't have any rogue cell content is to activate a table, grab the big handle in the lower right corner and drag up and left until you can't go any further.
If you have any rogue cells, cells with perhaps accidental content away from your intended work, your table sizing handle will stop working when it runs against them. Any cell with content will block the table size reduction effort and if you want to shrink the table further you will have to either deal with the cells first or delete the rows and columns using other controls.
Regards,
Jerry