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 ...

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.

See how easy it is to use the Tables and Borders toolbar to merge cells if your Word table contains too many cells in a row or too many rows in a column. Also, learn how you can change table ...