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I have two tables one just below another, and I can't insert a new empty line of regular text between them.
Any ideas?
The active cursor is even with the bottom left of the table normally. You can just hit Ctrl+Home to get to the very first character of the file, then Enter to move the table down.
If your table is positioned after the section break, or on top of any other page, or anywhere else for that matter, place the cursor in the top left cell of the table, and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter to insert a new line before the table.
Based on this guide from the MS Word MVP FAQ site. Quotes are from the article; screenshots were taken for this post.
In Word 2007, on the Home tab, locate the Paragraph group. Click the dialog launcher (small arrow) in the bottom right corner to open the Paragraph dialog. Select the Line and Page Breaks tab.
“Keep lines together,” as the name implies, keeps all the lines of a paragraph together. That is, it keeps a single paragraph from being split across two pages.
“Keep with next” keeps a given paragraph with the following one. That is, it prevents the two paragraphs from being separated across two pages (the individual paragraphs, however, can be split internally unless “Keep lines together” is also applied). This property is assigned by default to Word's built-in Heading 1–Heading 4 styles to ensure that headings stay with following text.
Select both of these properties to force the table to wrap columns or go to the next page if it exceeds the available space.
Now the table behaves as desired:
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Ctrl+Shift and Enter works for me on Word 14 (aka Word 2010 in Office 2010).
This works, if your cursor is at the start of the second table.