The always resourceful Tech-Recipes has a handy tutorial on how to easily (that's the trick) combine two tables in Microsoft Word. This is something that is supposed to be easy, but usually ends ...

We show you how to merge and split cells in Table in Microsoft Word. You can choose the number of rows and columns.

You may need two of Word's tables to overlap each other, only to find out that, by default, Word will attempt to merge the tables together if you drag them near each other on the page.

Use Word 2010's Numbering feature in tables and make it automatically number multiple table columns vertically. This way, each cell in each column will be placed under the correct number.

Adding an new row to a Word table is an easy task. Adding multiple rows is just as easy, if you know this simple trick.