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Tables without spacing between them

By default, MS Word necessarily places a paragraph between tables. To display two tables without that spacing separation, the best solution is adding a paragraph with the minimum space. This can be done using a DOCX program when working with a template or phpdocx in tables created from scratch:

$valuesTable = array(
    array('A.1', 'A.2'),
    array('B.1', 'B.2')
);

$paramsTable = array(
    'border' => 'single',
);

$docx->addTable($valuesTable, $paramsTable);

// new empty paragraph with the minimum size
$docx->addText('', array('fontSize' => 1, 'spacing' => 0, 'spacingBottom' => 0, 'spacingTop' => 0, 'lineSpacing' => 0));

// remove borderTop for the cells of the first row of the second table to avoid adding two borders
$col_1_1 = array(
    'value' => 'N.1',
    'border' => 'single',
    'borderTop' => 'nil',
);

$col_1_2 = array(
    'value' => 'N.2',
    'border' => 'single',
    'borderTop' => 'nil',
);

$valuesTable = array(
    array($col_1_1, $col_1_2),
);

$paramsTable = array(
    'border' => 'single',
);

$docx->addTable($valuesTable, $paramsTable);

A minimum space between tables can also be applied when converting HTML to DOCX:

$html = '
<style>
    td {
        vertical-align: top;
    }
</style>
<table border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="600">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td width="300">A.1</td>
            <td width="300">A.2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="300">B.1</td>
            <td width="300">B.2</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<p style="margin: 0; line-height: 0;"></p>
<table border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="600">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td width="300">A.1</td>
            <td width="300">A.2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="300">B.1</td>
            <td width="300">B.2</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
';
$docx->embedHTML($html);

Border styles can be customized with CSS to achieve the precise output needed.