[Dba-office] Interesting Word table problem

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 10:38:51 CST 2015


Tina, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. I did research online and
learned that it's thought to be a remnant of merged and then unmerged
cells, but I couldn't make it happen. What I didn't do was delete the row
and recreate it, which probably makes more sense -- remove the corruption
rather than working around it.

Susan H.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Tina Norris Fields <
tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:

> I've never run into that problem.  I will play with some table cells and
> rows and see if I can replicate the problem.  Thanks for the puzzle.
> TNF
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
> 231-322-2787
>
> On 2/13/2015 5:02 PM, Susan Harkins wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's right. But, formatting some of the cells doesn't perform as
>> expected. It applies the format to the entire row. I had Show/Hide enabled
>> and I wasn't selecting anything but the individual cell.
>>
>> Susan H.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:08 PM, John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I've made forms like that in the past and have not had any issues. Format
>>> only the cell not the row. I know that is obvious but sometimes... ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>> [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan
>>> Harkins
>>> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:31 AM
>>> To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com
>>> Subject: [Dba-office] Interesting Word table problem
>>>
>>> A reader sent me a Word document that's comprised of multiple tables
>>> formatted to look like a paper form. He used a table to insert labels and
>>> used the border to create underscores.
>>>
>>> Name ____________________________
>>>
>>> Where Name and the underscore are two cells in the same row of a table.
>>>
>>> When applying the Bottom Border attribute to some of the cells, Word
>>> applies
>>> the underscore to all of the cells in the row, instead of only the
>>> selected
>>> cell.
>>>
>>> All of the cells look exactly the same. I even used Format Painter to
>>> format
>>> the culprit cells using a good cell. Eventually, I was able to work
>>> around
>>> it, by splitting, underscoring, and then merging the culprit cells back
>>> to
>>> a
>>> single. But, that shouldn't be necessary and I'd like to know what caused
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Has anyone run into this before and resolved it rather than skirting
>>> around
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Susan H.
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