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Subject:RE: Annoying MS Word Table Sizing Issue From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:36:30 -0500
Wait! Before you unformat everything about the text!...
Your problem is the tables, not the text inside -- right? So first try
Table|Convert|Table to Text. If there's anything wrong with the text,
fix it, and then convert back to tables.
Let me know if this doesn't work for you...
-- Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schutz, Me
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:24 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Annoying MS Word Table Sizing Issue
>
> Hello Amy,
>
> A couple of suggestions, least to most painful (at least in my humble
> opinion).
> Check the settings in the Table Grid style.
> Try an "open and repair" on the document.
> Select everything in the document except the last paragraph marker and
> copy the file to a new document (based on the new template) in a new
> folder, save the file and then work on the tables.
> Use Pure Text or some other format stripping utility to cut the tables
> from the document and then paste them back as unformatted
> text. Convert the text to a new table.
>
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