copied tables loses formatting

[Sarah Edell]

If I create a table, take off the borders, and copy it to
a new blank document, no problemo. If I copy it, then get
exit out of the document I created the tabled in, open a
new document, and paste, the document now has borders.
THis can't be differences in auto format defaults. It
seems that the program doesn't remember the specific
formating options of the table created once the source
document is closed. How can I fix this? I have created
numerous macros to fix all my tables in templates
everytime I bring them up. Any other ideas?

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Sarah,

For a while now, there have been two "clipboards" when Office
is running: the Windows clipboard and the Office clipboard.
Sometimes, they store all the information the copied item
requires, and can paste it with no loss of information into
the target.

Other times, they maintain a link to the original application
so that "complex" information is passed along an active link
(rather than trying to store it in the Clipboard). You can
see this most easily in Excel, with the "marching ants".

Mosty likely, when you close the original document, this is
the kind of information that wasn't placed on the clipboard,
but was being maintained by a link to the source doucment.
Table formatting tends to be rather complex (it's the most
common cause of the "can't undo this action" and "low memory"
messages in Word).

IF you have Word 2002 or 2003 and created a new table style,
then applied that to your tables, the formatting would
probably come across in the style definition.

If I create a table, take off the borders, and copy it to
a new blank document, no problemo. If I copy it, then get
exit out of the document I created the tabled in, open a
new document, and paste, the document now has borders.
THis can't be differences in auto format defaults. It
seems that the program doesn't remember the specific
formating options of the table created once the source
document is closed. How can I fix this?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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