Fix the Office table formating problem Rick Woodhouse - IS Supt, Teck Cominco 04.07.2006 17:58:01 Spent the entire long week re-creating and walking on eggshells trying to complete a substantial document (65 pages) but Office (Word) kept making a mess of the tables. After being nearly complete Friday afternoon and going to print, Word took over at the 11th hour and move the tables all over the place. I pretty much had to start from scratch and I had to spend most of the weekend to redo the document and while doing so saving the document under new names with every single step so I could back up when the auto reformatting occurred (which it did on many occassions). I ended up creating separate documents and pulling them together manually. After looking on the internet, it appears this has been a long standing and well known problem. If so, when will Microsoft fix??? I have a sample document I could supply and am able to recreate the problem at will. If there is a better way to report this to Microsoft, let me know. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=d4d9da5b-873f-4896-89d4-fcf4ec76955c&dg=microsoft.public.word.tables

Re: Fix the Office table formating problem "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 06.07.2006 00:16:19 Do you have the text set to wrap around the tables? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Rick Woodhouse - IS Supt, Teck Cominco" <Rick Woodhouse - IS Supt, Teck Cominco[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D4D9DA5B-873F-4896-89D4-FCF4EC76955C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Spent the entire long week re-creating and walking on eggshells trying to > complete a substantial document (65 pages) but Office (Word) kept making a > mess of the tables. > > After being nearly complete Friday afternoon and going to print, Word took > over at the 11th hour and move the tables all over the place. I pretty > much > had to start from scratch and I had to spend most of the weekend to redo > the > document and while doing so saving the document under new names with every > single step so I could back up when the auto reformatting occurred (which > it > did on many occassions). > > I ended up creating separate documents and pulling them together manually. > > After looking on the internet, it appears this has been a long standing > and > well known problem. > > If so, when will Microsoft fix??? I have a sample document I could > supply > and am able to recreate the problem at will. > > If there is a better way to report this to Microsoft, let me know. > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=d4d9da5b-873f-4896-89d4-fcf4ec76955c&dg=microsoft.public.word.tables

RE: Fix the Office table formating problem SunWorshipper 25.07.2006 19:03:02 I had a similar problem in the last few days. A multipage table was not printing improperly. So I began breaking it up into smaller tables. Somehow the page orientation changed from portrait to landscape, perhaps because a following table was in landscape layout. Eventually I realized that the whole document changed to landscape. So I changed the setting to portrait. Then a 115 page document turned into 179 pages. MS WORD moved the tables all over, locating them in different sections, overlaying some tables on other tables, inserting many tables in unrelated text. even in the middle of a sentence. Some table columns got so narrow that the text entries got squashed beyond legibility. I could not find the resolution to the problem in the KB. Is there some FAQ somewhere else? -- SunWorshipper "Rick Woodhouse - IS Supt, Teck Cominco" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Spent the entire long week re-creating and walking on eggshells trying to > complete a substantial document (65 pages) but Office (Word) kept making a > mess of the tables. > > After being nearly complete Friday afternoon and going to print, Word took > over at the 11th hour and move the tables all over the place. I pretty much > had to start from scratch and I had to spend most of the weekend to redo the > document and while doing so saving the document under new names with every > single step so I could back up when the auto reformatting occurred (which it > did on many occassions). > > I ended up creating separate documents and pulling them together manually. > > After looking on the internet, it appears this has been a long standing and > well known problem. > > If so, when will Microsoft fix??? I have a sample document I could supply > and am able to recreate the problem at will. > > If there is a better way to report this to Microsoft, let me know. > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=d4d9da5b-873f-4896-89d4-fcf4ec76955c&dg=microsoft.public.word.tables