How do I paste a table from Word and preserve formatiing?

[Jon]

I have some Word docs that I need to copy some tables from to annotate in
OneNote. When I paste them (with preserve formatting as the paste option),
they get pretty strange looking with the rightmost column getting squished
down to 3 or 4 letters width. I try to move the cell walls and all I can do
is move the individual text blocks that never line up with the existing text.
Looks like a bad ransom note.
The original document is standard formatting with generous margins so it's
not like I'm trying to paste landscape to portrait.
Thanks for any help but especially to help that fixes the problem!

 

[Erik Sojka]

Tables in OneNote do not have the same richness of features that they do
in Word.

As a workaround, assuming you don't need to further change the text in
the tables (but merely annotate "on top" of the table) you can insert the
Word document by going to Insert | Document as Picture and then
navigating to the saved Word document. This will put an image of the
word document (where the formatting is 100% retained) into a new page in
OneNote, set that picture as a background picture, then allow you to
annotate that table. Again, since this import method is image-based, you
won't be able to change the text in the table in OneNote.