Hidden Table Rows cause printing problems

[Justin]

Hello,
I have a rather strange problem occuring. I have a word document
that has multiple tables within it. Each Table consists of a header
row that contains information that I want to be able to see, but do
not want others to see and a body row that contains general
information that anyone can see. I have attached a style to the
header row that will turn the header text invisible (hidden) which in
turn collapses the row to almost nothing. All this works great. When
I hide the header row I would like all the spacing of the tables to
adjust so that all the body rows are seperated with only a paragraph
line between them plus the small space the header row occupies). The
problem comes in when I have a nested table in the header row. Word
seems to not release the space that the header row takes up when
printing or viewing the document after marking the row as hidden.

To reproduce my problem

1. Create two tables each with 1 column and two rows. seperate the two
table with a paragraph/carriage return/enter. Set the paragraph style
to keep with next and keep lines together. Set the row styles to not
break across pages

2. Enter the numbers 1-14 pressing enter after each one for each row
in both tables
1
2
3
4
......so on to 14 for each row.

3. Mark the Text in the first row of the first table to hidden.

4. Convert the Text in the first row of the first table to a table
(convert text to table command)

Now what should have happened is the first row of the first table
should shrink and both tables should fit on one page.

What happened though is different from that.

Thanks,
Justin

 

[JGM]

Hello,
I have a rather strange problem occuring. I have a word document
that has multiple tables within it. Each Table consists of a header
row that contains information that I want to be able to see, but do
not want others to see and a body row that contains general
information that anyone can see. I have attached a style to the
header row that will turn the header text invisible (hidden) which in
turn collapses the row to almost nothing. All this works great. When
I hide the header row I would like all the spacing of the tables to
adjust so that all the body rows are seperated with only a paragraph
line between them plus the small space the header row occupies). The
problem comes in when I have a nested table in the header row. Word
seems to not release the space that the header row takes up when
printing or viewing the document after marking the row as hidden.

To reproduce my problem

1. Create two tables each with 1 column and two rows. seperate the two
table with a paragraph/carriage return/enter. Set the paragraph style
to keep with next and keep lines together. Set the row styles to not
break across pages

2. Enter the numbers 1-14 pressing enter after each one for each row
in both tables
1
2
3
4
.....so on to 14 for each row.

3. Mark the Text in the first row of the first table to hidden.

4. Convert the Text in the first row of the first table to a table
(convert text to table command)

OK. Did all that.

Now what should have happened is the first row of the first table
should shrink and both tables should fit on one page.
Right.


What happened though is different from that.

No, not for me, everything worked as expected.
What happened to your document?
What version of Word?
On XP everything is fine.

 

[Justin]

OK. Did all that.


No, not for me, everything worked as expected.
What happened to your document?
What version of Word?
On XP everything is fine.

Thanks,
I am on 2003. I tried this on XP and was able to replicate the
problem by adding one more step. Convert the text in the first row of
the second table to a table (convert text to table) and word xp will
now hold space in the document for the table on the first page. Each
table will appear on its own page.

Thanks,
Justin