If you insert a table into a cell, you have two tables, one inside the other, which are nested
tables. Most of the time you don’t need—or want—two separate tables; usually, when you
run out of room in a table, what you really need is the capability to split an existing cell into
two, four, or six cells.
There are only a few subtle differences between, say, nesting a four-column one-row table
inside a cell, and manually splitting the cell into four smaller cells. The main difference is in
spacing—unless you change the spacing settings, nested tables take up an additional amount
of space inside ...
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