Just as with copying and pasting plain text from Word documents, it is best to paste the table-formatted text without the original formatting. This way, you avoid copying unwanted Office code.

• In Word, position the cursor within the Word document table you want to copy.
• Select ‘Table', 'Select Table’ from the main Word toolbar.
• Select ‘Edit’, ‘Copy’ to copy the selected text.
• In FrontPage, position the cursor where you want the table to appear.
• Select ‘Edit, ‘Paste Special’ from the main FrontPage toolbar.
• Select ‘One formatted PARAGRAPH’ and click ‘OK’.
• The text contained within the Word document table will now appear on the page.
• To reformat this text as a table, first select all of the text you just pasted. You may find that holding down the ‘shift’ key and then using the arrow keys is the easiest way of selecting a long section of text.
• Select ‘Table’, ‘Convert’, ‘Text to Table’.
• Select ‘Tabs’ as the separator and click ‘OK’.
• Your text should now be back in a table. Select ‘Table’, ‘Select’, ‘Table’ and under the styles MENU, select ‘Normal’.

If you SEE that a SINGLE cell should span across several columns, right-click the cell and select ‘Cell PROPERTIES’. Then set the 'Columns spanned' number as required. For example, if your table has three columns and you have one cell that should span the entire row, set the number of columns spanned as ‘3’. If you want a cell to span more than one row, change the 'Rows spanned' number instead.

Just as with copying and pasting plain text from Word documents, it is best to paste the table-formatted text without the original formatting. This way, you avoid copying unwanted Office code.

If you see that a single cell should span across several columns, right-click the cell and select ‘Cell Properties’. Then set the 'Columns spanned' number as required. For example, if your table has three columns and you have one cell that should span the entire row, set the number of columns spanned as ‘3’. If you want a cell to span more than one row, change the 'Rows spanned' number instead.