Delete cell from table in Word? Take 2!

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Joyce Fetterman provided more details: <<I inherited a Word document  
that consists of a table, 3 columns by 30 or so rows. Each cell  
contains a small picture (of a pet available for adoption) and a  
small amount of descriptive text (name, age). The table is in  
alphabetical order by pet name. When a pet is adopted, I need to  
remove that picture from the table; when a new pet is brought in, I  
need to insert a cell for its picture in the correct alphabetical  
order. I was hoping for a way to do that without leaving empty cells  
(after adoptions) or creating an entire row to insert one new cell.>>

Aha! (Enlightenment belatedly dawns.) In that case, there may be a  
much easier way to to this: pull the information out of the table,  
and present it as a single column of text. Now, here's the trick:  
insert a section break before and after the pictures, and define the  
section between those markers as having three columns! So long as you  
add and subtract text and photos between the markers, they should  
reflow automatically as you add and delete information. Not using  
Word 2003, so I can't confirm this. Those who are may be able to  
provide more details.

If they don't automatically reflow, you can force them to do so by  
simply inserting column breaks manually: on the Mac, it's Control +  
Return, so probably the same thing in Windows.


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